1983 Chateau Margaux - Margaux

The wine that many consider Margaux's finest vintage of the 1980s — and the one that Robert Parker himself described as his preferred Margaux bouquet of the decade. Always cited as the best wine of the 1983 vintage in Bordeaux, because the Margaux appellation performed slightly better in 1983 than in the legendary 1982 — more structured than the 1982, and still incredibly fresh and clean. The Cabernet Sauvignon achieved perfect maturity in 1983, resulting in an astonishingly rich, concentrated, and atypically powerful Margaux — dark ruby in color, with aromas of ripe cassis, violets, and vanillin oak, and flavors of extraordinary depth and length on the palate with a clean, impossibly long finish. Now drinking spectacularly — cassis, black currants, cedar, graphite, and spice with fully integrated tannins and a long, seemingly ageless finish. Now 42 years old and in its prime. A First Growth for the ages. Drink now–2035.