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Château Desmirail — Margaux
Margaux · France

Château Desmirail

Vineyard blend
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot

Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page. The estate does not publish the share of each grape variety: they are listed without proportions.

Bottle of Château Desmirail

The wine

Le château Desmirail produit des vins élégants et suaves dans le plus pur style Margaux. De millésime en millésime, Desmirail exprime toutes les nuances de la délicate palette du terroir de Margaux.

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Terroir

Les vignes du Château Desmirail, d’un âge moyen de trente ans, couvrent une superficie d’un peu plus de trente hectares comme lors du classement de 1855. Le vignoble repose sur des graves profondes qui se sont mises en place pendant l’ère quaternaire, entre 650 000 et 250 000 ans avant notre ère. Ces graviers et galets, qui proviennent des montagnes pyrénéennes, ont été roulés par les eaux de la Garonne et se sont déposés en formant des terrasses. Ces dépôts ont été ensuite érodés, si bien qu’ils se présentent aujourd’hui sous la forme de croupes graveleuses qui culminent autour d’une vingtaine de mètres d’altitude. Le vignoble de Desmirail est réparti sur trois communes de l’appellation Margaux : Cantenac, Arsac et Soussans.

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2015 vintage figures

Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2015 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.

Vintages on record

VintageBest scoreVintage characterTechnical sheet
2015—A hot summer tempered by August rains gave expansive wines, with rounded tannins and generous fruit.—
2014—A gloomy summer redeemed by an Indian summer: the cabernets are radiant and the freshness is true to the Médoc.fiche · PDF
2012—A late cycle closing with rain gave an uneven vintage: the cabernets hold up, the merlots remain taut.fiche · PDF
2011—A scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type.fiche · PDF
2010—A dry summer and cool nights concentrated small berries: a benchmark vintage, with dense tannins and a thirty-year aging potential.fiche · PDF

“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.

All technical sheets

The estate’s grand vin and other cuvées, vintage by vintage: VinCod sheet and printable PDF.

Château DesmirailGrand vinRouge · 4 vintages

An offer on Château Desmirail

Availability, allocations and terms: the Compagnie Médocaine will reply. The estate is already filled in; please specify the vintage you want.

Texts and documents 2015

The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.

Visuals

This wine’s visuals are grouped in the media library. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.

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