Château Margaux 2006
Margaux, 1er cru classé
In original wooden case
12 bottles per lot

Type: Red Wine
Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot blend
Region: Margaux

ABOUT THE WINE
Château Margaux has sought to achieve excellence in its wines for over 400 years through painstaking and necessarily long studies of its terroir, through a constant desire to learn and innovate, by remaining sensitive to demanding markets, and above all through a passionate commitment that has been shared by the families that have succeeded each other at the estate. At the end of the 17th century, it became part of the nascent elite “First Growths” – long before being established officially by the Classification of 1855. Since then, Château Margaux has known fame and fortune, seeing by experience how ephemeral both are…Today Corinne Mentzelopoulos, supported by her team led by Paul Pontallier, and following in her father’s footsteps, devotes her time and energy to radiating her enthusiasm for this wine, whose name is synonymous with greatness, balance and harmony. The vineyard of Château Margaux covers 202 acres and is situated on soils that are mostly gravelly but also clay-limestone, and whose diversity is surely partly responsible for the complexity of the wines they produce. The first wine, Château Margaux, which makes around one-third of the total crop, is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (at least 85%), Merlot (between 5 and 10%) and finally Petit Verdot (around 2%) and a little Cabernet Franc (around 2%). These proportions vary of course according to the vintage, but the Cabernet Sauvignon always remains very predominant, being the “body and soul” of our wine. On average over the last 5 years, they have produced 130,000 bottles of Château Margaux and 115,000 bottles of Pavillon Rouge du Château Margaux (our 2nd wine) per year. Their third wine has been bottled since the 2009 vintage under the name of Margaux du Château Margaux, with an average production of 40,000 bottles since then. In addition to this, from a gravel plot of 29 acres, Château Margaux has been producing for over a century now around 12,000 bottles a year of Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux, a white wine made solely from Sauvignon Blanc.