Michael Schuster | Sweetly cassis-ripe and lightly new-oak vanillary on the nose; a concentrated medium-full wine, fresh in acidity, firm in tannin; an abundance of crisply ripe blackcurrant fruit to taste, juicy and fleshy within a firmly if finely dry, chewily tannic frame, the texture rather marked by its new-wood component; a nice freshness here, and clearly a quality fruit, but this tastes more of its (first) new-wave winemaking style than it does of its origin. Today, this seems, if oddly, somewhat old-fashioned and a touch coarse for Margaux. Solid, superripe, extracty, wood-dry. It’s good wine, but it’s more concentration than complexity, and not my style of Margaux. 2034–50+.