Château Magdeleine Bouhou - Grand Vin - 2014

Château Magdeleine Bouhou

Grand Vin 2014

From a high-quality plot, 90% Merlot, 10% Malbec. 35-year-old vines on clay and limestone. Yield 40.5 hl/ha. No herbicides. Fermented in small concrete vats with soft pigeage. 12-14 months in French oak barrels, 30% new. 50,000 bottles made. Consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt.
To begin with much more closed on the nose than the gregarious Boha; blackcurrant leaf, rather than berry. With a bit of time, crushed elderberry begins to emerge, sweet and bitter and dark. Dry and leafy, with the lightest pencil sketch of dark fruit. As with the nose, elderberry dominates with its almost medicinal play across dark bitter-sweetness, something slightly liquorice, and more than a streak of green. Fine, shapely tannins but on the whole very lean. If you like your bordeaux on the austere side… 

When to drink
2018 – 2023

Tamlyn Currin, July 2017


À propos de Jancis Robinson

Described by Decanter magazine as 'the most respected wine critic and journalist in the world', Jancis writes daily for JancisRobinson.com (voted first-ever Wine Website of the Year in the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards 2010), weekly for The Financial Times, and bi-monthly for a column that is syndicated around the world. She is also editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, co-author with Hugh Johnson ofThe World Atlas of Wine and co-author of Wine Grapes - A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours, each of these books recognised as a standard reference worldwide.