Marquis d'Alesme - Margaux 2023

The Wine Palate

95

byLisa Perrotti-Brownthe4/9/2026

The 2023 Marquis d’Alesme is deep garnet-purple in color. Gentle, fragrant notes of lavender, red roses, and baking spices slowly emerge from the glass, leading to a core of red currant jelly and kirsch, plus a touch of mossy tree bark. The light- to medium-bodied palate reveals an impressive intensity of perfumed red berry flavors, with a racy backbone and firm, fine-grained tannins, finishing long and spicy. The blend is 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, and 5% Cabernet Franc, with a pH of 3.60. It was aged in 45% new French oak barrels.

The Wine Cellar Insider

94

byJeff Levethe3/30/2026

Flowers, black cherries, chocolate, blackberries, and mint leaf create the aromatics. The palate is even better with its lush, creamy, elegant waves of sweet, ripe, dark red pit fruits and chocolate. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, and 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2028-2045.

Vinous

95

byAntonio Gallonithe3/16/2026

The 2023 Marquis d'Alesme is sleek and silky right out of the gate. Dark blue-toned fruit, lavender, mocha, licorice and crushed flowers all grace the palate. Margaux at its most delicate.

Vinous

94

byNeal Martinthe2/1/2026

The 2023 Marquis d'Alesme Becker has a well-defined bouquet that blossoms in the glass, beautiful black cherries and blueberry fruit, very floral and perhaps more expressive than the Labégorce. The palate is medium-bodied with silky tannins, quite lush and yet there is superb tension with a caressing, intense finish. Outstanding.

The Wine Cellar Insider

93-95

byJeff Levethe5/6/2024

The perfume pops with flowers, cherries, mint, tobacco, smoke, mocha, and cedar. On the palate, the wine is elegant, soft, and lifted, with a spicy edge to the red berries. There is a chalky, marine influence that comes through on the back end of the finish. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV. 3.5 pH. The harvest took place from September 16 - October 6. Yields were only 32 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2028-2055. 93-95 Pts.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

94

byJane Ansonthe5/6/2024

Grip and tension, with tomato leaf, peony, lemongrass, slate, pummice stone, spiced plum and damson fruit, not the ink of the Cabernet in the northern Médoc, but caressing and full of fragrant pleasure. 45% new oak for ageing, and proof again that this estate is becoming one of the quiet scene-stealers of the Margaux appellation.

Vinous

93-95

byAntonio Gallonithe4/30/2024

The 2023 Marquis d'Alesme is impressive. Raspberry jam, blood orange, white flowers, mint and lavender abound. Silky, elegant tannins wrap it all together in style. A closing burst of bright acids and lifted floral notes lends the last kick of resonance. Classy, elegant and polished, the 2023 is one of the best recent editions I have encountered. Tasted two times.

Vinous

91-93

byNeal Martinthe4/29/2024

The 2023 Marquis d'Alesme Becker has a well-defined bouquet like its sibling Labégorce. It unfurls more slowly in the glass, revealing perfumed iris and violet scents interwoven into the black fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with very pliant tannin. Slightly powdery in texture, it possesses fine weight and an expressive, lightly spiced finish. This is a well-crafted, modestly endowed Margaux, though this year I am more smitten by the Labégorce.

Falstaff

90

byPeter Moserthe4/29/2024

Strong ruby, purple reflections, brightening on the rim. Restrained aromas, delicate cherry fruit, some plums, a hint of orange zest. Medium body, red berryish and fresh, clean, a lean food wine, will be accessible early.

Alexandre Ma

92-93

byAlexandre Mathe4/28/2024

Vertdevin

92-93

byJonathan Chicheportichethe4/24/2024