Bordeaux 2006 tasting notes – Margaux

Below are my tasting notes for the wines of Margaux, plus the Moulis and Listrac appellations which are also in the southern Médoc. They are supplemented by Julia’s notes for the two very distinctive Margaux made by the Thunevins of Saint-Émilion, Clos Margolaine and Marojallia. 

Although Chx Margaux and Palmer have made seriously respectable, if extremely different, grands vins, most of the wines in these appellations were a bit disappointing. Typically rather scrawny and thin at this stage, too many were marked more by drying, underripe tannins than by genuinely ripe fruit. Prieuré Lichine and du Tertre stood out for...