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Château Bel-Air Marquis d’Aligre in Margaux is run by Jean-Pierre Boyer who at nearly 90 years old has produced over 70 vintages in his life, all of them at the same propriété.
The wine is produced from old vines: the youngest are 50 years old, the oldest over 100 and on their own rootstocks. Yields here are very low, around 25-30hh, extraction is delicate, and the wine is aged for 3 years in cement cuves, before bottling after fining but with no filtration.
The wines are bottle-aged for many years before release (usually 10-15 years after the vintage). As a result, they reveal unusual complexities and subtleties of flavour and Jancis Robinson has described the wines as “completely outside the Bordeaux norm...burgundian in their build and lusciousness, but with a certain stony quality”.
About the 1996 vintage:
“Pale strawberry colour. Really rather rich and gamey on the nose with great life and almost Nebbiolo-like allure. The opposite of modern red bordeaux but very attractive and sweet. Extremely distinctive. No new wood and released only when judged ready to drink. Most unusual! Jancis Robinson (September 2013) JancisRobinson.com
Bottle is in pristine condition (level in neck) and has been stored in a temperature-controlled cellar.
Possible collection from London SW1V.
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