Chateau Margaux 1er Cru 1993

Robert Parker: Less than 50% of Margaux's 1993 harvest made the grade for the estate's "grand vin." A blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, and the 2% Cabernet Franc, Margaux's 1993 is atypically supple and seductive. It offers an impressively saturated ruby/purple color, an intense fragrance of red and black fruits, toast, and spring flowers, and a voluptuously-textured, multi-layered personality, with expansive, sweet, ripe fruit. It is surprisingly forward, without the mouth-aching tannin possessed by many 1993s. The wine is medium to full-bodied, beautifully pure, and reminiscent of this property's splendid 1985. Capable of lasting for 20-25 years, it should turn out to be one of the most seductive and popular 1993 clarets. Very impressive! 91-93/100

Jeff Leve: Past full maturity, this is starting to fade. If you have a bottle, pop a cork for the remainder of the bright, red, sweet, overly fresh core of red berries, earth, tobacco and leafy forest characteristics. The wine is soft, as well as crisp in the finish. Drink up as the fruit is only going to continue to decline from here. 90/100 (2018)