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ANSON: "Plush, impressive colour, with medium to full intensity inky plum. Good quality, feels like a true En Primeur sample with its fragrance, austerity, well built tannins, impressive, sappy, savoury and understated black fruits. Will take its time to show the fragrant heart of Margaux, but it's in there. Alex Van der Beek director. Famille Albada Jelgersma. 35 hl/ha yield."
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THE WINE ADVOCATE: "The 2024 Giscours has turned out very well indeed. Offering up incipiently complex aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with orange zest, licorice, violets and burning embers, it's medium to full-bodied, with good density and richness, with a layered, rather muscular palate and a long, expansive finish. The 2024 is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot. The estate retained cover crops to amplify the dry conditions in July and August, accelerating ripening, and once again picked by vine age within blocks, bringing in the younger-vine fruit earlier before it could rot. Merlot came in between 19 and 28 September, and the Cabernet Sauvignon was picked very late, between 1 and 11 October."
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THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Vibrant and silky in the mouth, the wine delivers its layers of sweet, lifted black cherries, dark cocoa, refreshing mint, spice, and strawberries. There is elegance and length, with a fruit-filled, refined, energetic finish. Give it a year or two in the bottle, and the wine will be even better. The wine is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 4% Petit Verdot. 13% ABV, pH 3.71. Harvesting took place September 18 - October 11. Drink from 2028-2045."
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VINUM: "Rubinrot; anfangs scheu, jedoch mit Tiefgang, Kräuter, Himbeeren, blonder Tabak; seidenweich am Gaumen, delikate, reife Frucht, tänzerisch, verspielt, mit Spannung, Finesse und einer sehr guten, aromatischen Persistenz. Eine Grazie!"
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FALSTAFF: "Dunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Ein Bukett von roten Waldbeeren, frische Herzkirschen, ein Hauch von Lakritze, frische Pflaumen. Frisch, rotbeerig, finessenreich, mineralisch-saline Nuancen im Abgang, Ribisel im Abgang, feine Würze im Rückgeschmack."
