Chateau Giscours 2015

Parker: The 2015 Giscours showed magnificently when I tasted it from barrel and I made allusions to the legendary 1961, which I have been fortunate to taste two or three times. I have no reason to change this view. It has a very refined bouquet that is almost understated at first, but then blossoms in the glass with copious blackberry, raspberry, flint and graphite aromas. The palate is very well balanced with great depth and real vibrancy. There is a slight chalkiness to the texture, extraordinarily fresh with superb mineral tension on the long finish. This is a great Giscours that will age beautifully over many years. Drink Date: 2022 - 2060. 95/100

Galloni: The 2015 Giscours has a beautiful, clean, pure bouquet of generous ripe black cherry, raspberry and crushed violet aromas that could only come from Margaux. The medium-bodied palate is quite dense but wonderfully poised, offering sappy red fruit and very fine tannin and delivering impressive detail on the bay leaf and tea leaf finish. Alexandre van Beek oversaw one of the best Giscours in recent years. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting. 95/100

Falstaff: Dunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, dezente Randaufhellung. Dunkles Beerenkonfit, zart tabakig, feine Kräuterwürze, reife Pflaumen im Hintergrund. Saftig, rund und ausgewogen, seidige Tannine, extraktsüßer Abgang, elegant und anhaftend, ein facettenreicher Speisenbegleiter mit Reifepotenzial. 94/100