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2023 Alter Ego de Palmer, Margaux, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (53%), Merlot (43%), Petit Verdot (4%)
Not ready (Drink 2033 - 2065)
Product: 20238004295

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2023 Alter Ego de Palmer, Margaux, Bordeaux

Description

Blend: 53% Cabernet Sauvignon; 43% Merlot; 4% Petit Verdot.

Perhaps even more so this year than usual, Alter Ego is more a mini-Palmer than a second wine. The blend is almost identical for both wines; the different is just a question of intensity more than style. This has many of the grand vin’s expressive red-fruit notes from the Merlot, with complexity coming from the Cabernet. Thomas Duroux believes that Merlot on great terroir can work just as well as Cabernet. This is just a little looser knit than the grand vin, but that just means that corks can be pulled earlier. It is very good indeed.

Drink 2028 - 2040

Our score: 17/20

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2023
Alcohol % 14%
Maturity Not ready (2033 - 2065)
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (53%), Merlot (43%), Petit Verdot (4%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Palmer

About this wine

Margaux

Margaux

If Pauillac is the bastion of ‘traditional’ Red Bordeaux, Margaux represents its other facet in producing wines that are some of the region’s most sensual and alluring. The largest commune in the Médoc, it encompasses the communes of Cantenac, Soussans, Arsac and Labaude, in addition to the village of Margaux itself. Its finest examples are paragons of refinement and subtlety which have few parallels in Bordeaux.
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