2018 Château Palmer, Margaux

Tasting Note

Nicholas Jackson, MW
Extremely atypical year here due to tiny yields and huge tannin levels.  Deep plummy, mulberry nose - somewhat port like.  Massive, liqueur-like substance on the palate.  Very sweet and seamless.  Huge tannins, but all enveloped in fruit.  A huge, impactful wine but far from a typical Margaux.  A difficult wine to understand in the context of this chateau, but this is one of those cases where you trust - and know - that the terroir will emerge soon enough.

Jamie Ritchie
Very intense, concentrated, tightly wound black cherry and blackcurrant. The tiny yields make the Palmer 2018 a fun, intense, dense, concentrated, powerful, structured, multi-layered, complex and elaborate wine. Tannins are wrapped in dense concentrated blackcurrant fruit, with liquorice, cinnamon and spice. Beautifully structured and balanced with total harmony between all the elements. A very long, concentrated creamy blackcurrant finish that combines power with subtlety. An atypical but excellent Palmer.