Chateau Giscours, Margaux, 2001 champagne-template The result is a sweet

The result is a sweet wine of extraordinary complexity—honeyed yet saline

vinified the old-fashioned way in cement vats and aged in a portion of new French oak

it shows depth

fashions this 100% Syrah as a 'mini Côte Rôtie'—unfined and unfiltered

grilled octopus

Chateau Giscours, Margaux, 2001 champagne-template The result is a sweetA 3rd Growth Margaux at full maturity. Giscours, in the southern Margaux commune of Labarde, was under the careful Eric Albada Jelgersma stewardship in 2001 (the family had owned it since 1995, alongside du Tertre) a period that brought the estate back to top form after decades of variable performance. The 2001 vintage itself is one of those classical structured Bordeaux years that has aged with grace: less heralded than 2000 or 2005, but firmly built