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Château Giscours Margaux Red 2019

Château Giscours Margaux Red 2019

€119,90
€119,90
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With the 2019 vintage they aimed to preserve Château Giscours’ signature style, its power and structure, while at the same time working on two characteristics that they especially appreciate: the aromatic palette and the finesse of the tannins. The Merlot revealed different characteristics depending on the terroir and the harvest date. Some were juicy, fruity, and bursting with freshness, while others, with a more advanced degree of ripeness, presented a magnificent roundness and a much more voluptuous character. For the Cabernet, they decided to delay harvesting in order to achieve the most complete maturity of the skins and therefore of the tannins. In the winery, they modified their extraction approach with a focus on the delicacy of the tannins. Maceration was based more on duration of contact between juice and skins than on the intensity of extraction. Their decisions were guided by tasting at every step. The objective was to give to the Cabernet the desired three-dimensional character with structure, freshness and density. Very precise and well-balanced, the 2019 vintage gives full expression to the Château Giscours refined style.
  • Château Giscours
  • France
  • Bordeaux
  • 2019
  • Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot
  • Deep garonnais gravel.
  • Optical and manual sorting. Concrete and stainless steel tanks. Maceration 35 days at 28°C.
  • 17 months of ageing in french barrels. 50% new oak.
  • 75cl
  • 13,50%
  • 16ºC - 18ºC
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The story

Château Giscours has constantly reinvented itself to survive the centuries. Pierre de Lhomme, Marc Promis, Jean-Pierre Pescatore, Edouard Cruse, Nicolas Tari and now the Albada Jelgersma family – all ambitious and visionary estate owners who were passionate about pulling together the estate’s land and giving this vineyard, named a Third Grand Cru Classé in 1855, a reputation for excellence.

1552 to 1571: Pierre de Lhomme – the founder
This rich draper focused on increasing the size of the vineyard. He began the process of planting wild land with vines.

1847 to 1875: Jean-Pierre Pescatore and his heirs – the financial aesthete
This refined connoisseur gave the estate a strong reputation by boosting investment to raise the quality of its wines.

1855
Château Giscours becomes a Third Grand Cru Classé.

1875 -Two key events
1875 to 1890: Edouard Cruse – the visionary winegrower. He modernised the entire estate, created an entire park around the chateau, and built a model farm: Suzanne Farm.

Giscours park created by Eugène Buhler: This renowned landscape artist, who trained at the Ecole Royale d’Horticulture in Versailles, created Giscours park which surrounds the chateau.

1900 - First appearance of a mermaid on a Château Giscours label
This mermaid (‘sirène’ in French), Giscours’s emblem, can now be found on the labels of our top wine Château Giscours. This is what gave our second wine its name: La Sirène de Giscours.

1952 to 1995: Nicolas Tari and his heirs – the providential man
He picked Giscours back up after the Second World War and reorganised the estate’s 300 hectares.

1992 - First Giscours Haut-Médoc
The Giscours’ family’s third wine, coming from historic Haut-Médoc plots, first appears.

Since 1995: Eric Albada Jelgersma – the tireless perfectionist
This wine lover and art collector restructured the vineyard and renovated the winery buildings. His children Dennis, Derk and Valérie now run Giscours.

2018
The Albada Jelgersma children Dennis, Derk and Valérie take over the estate following the death of their father Eric Albada Jelgersma, alongside general manager Alexander van Beek.

The prestigious Margaux appellation
For wine enthusiasts all over the world, Margaux is fascinating and captivating. The only appellation to contain twenty one Grands Crus Classés, fewer than 25 kilometres from Bordeaux, is one of the most renowned terroirs in the Bordeaux region.

The character of a Margaux wine is best described as ‘an iron fist in a velvet glove’. The meagre terroir provides the wines with a wonderful structure of tannins, enabling them to develop magnificently over time whilst still retaining the charm and delicacy characteristic of a Margaux.


Source: Château Giscours website