Château Bel Air-Marquis d'Aligre - Margaux - Red - 1998

Wine:

A rare and unforgettable experience! The 1998 Château Bel Air Marquis d’Aligre is an extraordinary wine—delicate, refined, and barely showing its age. It unfolds with elegant aromas of ripe fruit, plum, cardamom, and sweet spices, all carried by a fresh, impeccably structured palate with seamlessly integrated tannins. The perfect ripeness of the Cabernet, the finesse of the Merlot, and the absence of filtration give it a full, silky texture that remains astonishingly youthful. Tasting a wine that, after more than 20 years, still feels so vibrant is pure joy. Easily on par with Médoc’s classified growths, it fully deserves its status as a Grand Cru Exceptionnel. Rated 96/100 by our Selection Committee, this is a wine of pure emotion.

Vinification:

Hand-harvested, sourced from the finest parcels, fermented with native yeasts, and aged for 36 months in concrete tanks. Unfiltered.

Color:

Dark red with garnet reflections.

Nose:

Delicate plum aromas mixed with notes of cardamom, blood orange and sweet spices.

Palate:

Generous and elegant, with perfectly ripe fruit flavours. Its full, silky texture offers remarkable depth and finesse, delivering a refined profile with beautifully evolving complexity.

Temperature:

Serve between 16 and 18°C. Do not hesitate to decant at least two hours before serving.

Food and wine pairing:

Red meat and mushrooms, hunting dishes of small game birds, risotto with woodland mousserons and its full-bodied brown juice, dishes based on black truffles and cheese platter with a farmhouse Saint-Nectaire as a priority.

Cellar aging:

From now until 2027

A free spirit, unbound by the Bordeaux system and its media noise, Jean-Pierre Boyer crafts a Margaux like no other, dazzling in its class. With more than seventy harvests behind him, he is an artist who works first in the vineyard, drawing the ripest and most perfect grapes from the land. True to his originality, he ages his wines as in the 19th century: first in vats until May, then briefly in old barrels before returning them to vats for two full years. This long maturation gives the wines a finesse and fluidity found nowhere else.

Bordering the terroir of the prestigious Château Margaux, the thirteen hectares of Château Bel Air Marquis d’Aligre offer an intimate and passionate vision of Bordeaux. Only one wine is produced here, and only in the best years. Rare and deeply moving, it is the fruit of a resolute philosophy that defies fashion, delivering results that astonish vintage after vintage.