Château du Tertre 2024

Critic scores

• James Suckling93
• Wine Advocate90-92
• Vinous90-92
• Decanter92

The 2024 vintage in Margaux

Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.

Overall reading of the year’s season across Margaux. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.

Tasting

Château Du Tertre 2024, a reflection of our most beautiful terroirs, comes from a rigorous selection of our best batches. The approach is through an aromatic between ripe black fruits and smoky and cocoa notes. The complexity of the bouquet lets us predict a mature wine showing us its full maturity. The palate is frank, dense and supported by tension of incredible length. The nobility of Cabernet Sauvignon offers us purity of fruit and freshness, with notes of liquorice. Softness and elegance of the tannic structure are also the prerogative of this blend where each grape variety has its influence.

Blend of the 2024 vintage

Figures from the 2024 sheet

• 16 yrsVine age
• 150,000 bottlesProduction

Winemaking

Wooden, concrete and stainless steel vats Gentle extraction, traditional pump-over Maceration for around twenty days

Ageing

Aged in Bordeaux barrels 60% new oak 40% wood from a wine Approximately 16 months

Terroir

These are the terroirs of Margaux at their highest point, and one of the highest gravel rises in the Médoc. The light and sunshine that bathe the vines protect them from late spring frosts. A stream acting as natural drainage separates the two rises. From it the vine draws the freshness essential to its development, sheltered from excess water as much as from drought.