CHATEAU GISCOURS 3eme Grand Cru Classe, Margaux 2022 Bottle

Description

The 2022 Château Giscours is a truly impressive wine, celebrated with accolades including 96 points from Decanter and 97-98 points from James Suckling. Decanter praises its gorgeous clarity and purity, noting its gentle yet compelling complexity, fresh and juicy character, and textured tannins that provide structure and density. The wine feels powerful yet refined, showcasing a cool minerality that enhances its vibrancy. James Suckling echoes this sentiment, highlighting its full-bodied yet agile profile with precise, integrated tannins, exuding beauty and length. The Wine Advocate awarded it 94-96+ points, appreciating its aromas of cherries, dark berries, and forest floor, along with a muscular, layered palate. With nearly 60% of the blend coming from old vines, this vintage promises exceptional depth and ageing potential, making it a must-have for collectors.

*****

DECANTER 96 points
Drinking Window: 2028 - 2049 - A seriously impressive and beguiling Giscous in 2022 and one of the most elegant. A remarkable wine with gorgeous clarity and purity and just the most gentle seduction, even more so because it really doesn't feel as if it's trying too hard yet still delivering depth and complexity. Fresh and lifted, fragrant and so juicy but with textured tannins that give both the weight, structure and density to the quite bright, tangy, vibrant fruit. Nicely composed, feels quite powerful yet restrained and finessed offering lots of immediate drinking appeal but with a serious backbone that suggests long ageing too. Elegant, fineseed, subtle confidence with such cool minerality that gives freshness all the way through. It's not the most dense, or fleshy, but so refined. A compelling wine. Possible upscore in bottle. 3% Cabernet Franc completes the blend. 3.70pH. A yield of 27hl/ha, the lowest ever. No Sirene de Giscours this year. 100% grand vin. Ageing 17 months, 50% new oak. 10-15% press wine. Tasted twice.

JAMES SUCKLING 97-98 Points
11 Apr, 2023 – This is a big move forward for Giscours. Full-bodied yet agile and fresh with tannins that are precise and integrated, with great beauty and length. Well-structured and vivid. Extremely fine yet defined tannins, and then it opens like a butterfly.

THE WINE ADVOCATE (94 - 96+) points
With the 2022 Giscours, this estate takes another step up, delivering a deep and characterful wine redolent of cherries, dark berries, violets, peony and forest floor. Medium to full-bodied, broad shouldered and layered, it's deep and elegantly muscular, with impressive concentration, abundant but refined tannins and a structural authority reminiscent of the great Giscours vintages of the 1970s. Why is it so good? There are many reasons, but one is the high proportion of old vines—almost 60% of the blend deriving from vines that are over 50 years old—in a vintage that favored vines with deep, well-established root systems. Another is the increasing precision of harvesting at this address: Giscours's old vines are frequently co-planted with younger replacements that have filled any gaps in the ranks over the years; so, blocks are now picked in two or three passages instead of all at once, with the younger vines picked first.