Alter Ego, Margaux 2020 (6x75cl)
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Alter Ego, Margaux 2015 (6x75cl)
Contract Type: SIB
Market Price：£412.50
Last Trade Price：£456.50
deliveryPeriod2 weeks
Score
90-92
16.5
90-93
91
94-95
Location : FranceBordeauxMargaux
Production area level : AOP
90-92
The 2015 Alter Ego de Palmer is a blend of 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, 52% Merlot and 6% Petit Verdot. It has a very open, ravishing, quite precocious bouquet with ripe black cherries, fresh dates and crème de cassis that gain intensity in the glass. The palate is more refined, reins it all back in thanks to quite tensile tannin, a crisp line of acidity, moderate depth in the mouth and a gentle grip. There is a touch of tarriness and cracked black pepper towards the finish with very good length. Give this 5-7 years in bottle.
16.5
Very rich on the nose. Very sweet and with sufficient freshness. Very very round. Just on the right side of soupy - but you really have to drink this pretty young, I think.
90-93
The 2015 Alter Ego is round, succulent and also a terrific introduction to the vintage. Raspberry jam, cinnamon, flowers and mint are all pushed forward. This is an especially succulent, juicy Margaux that is firing on all cylinders. Today, the 2015 gives the impression it will drink well with minimal cellaring, as its balance and overall harmony are first-rate. The blend is 52% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Petit Verdot.
91
Fine concentration of naturally rich floral fruit from 52% Merlot. More structure to come from perfectly integrated tannins.
94-95
Very solid and powerful with dried mushroom and wet earth aromas and flavors. Complex. Full and chewy yet so polished and long. Spicy, meat and gorgeous. Most serious Alter Ego ever. More inner Ego now!. 52% merlot, 41% cabernet sauvignon, and petit verdot 6%.
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Chateau Palmer is named after a British Major-General from the Napoleonic Wars. This Margaux tends to be high in Merlot, giving a ripe perfume and plum fruit flavours. Since the mid 1990s they have rediscovered their former class. The appointment of Thomas Duroux in 2004 has brought them into a new golden era.
