Château Marquis de Terme, Margaux, 4ème Cru Classé, 2013

Dense colour and fruit, nicely concentrated natural Cabernet fruit, always robust, but good wine.

This starts off well, with lilting floral aromatics, but doesn't have the propulsion through the palate to really keep building momentum and power. No green notes, and the fruit majors on redcurrant and softly crushed raspberry in character. A yield of 32hl/ha, and more second wine than first (52% second wine). 60% new oak, a little higher than usual to compensate for the lack of natural tannins in the grapes.