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98 -James Suckling -

Stunning aromas of blackcurrants, dark mushrooms and black cherries with forest-floor notes. Full body that fills your mouth with fine, caressing tannins and dark, flavorful fruit. The tannins are very intense and structural, spreading across the palate in layers and giving intensity and energy. Plenty of energy and verve here. This has gravity, too. 64% cabernet sauvignon, 30% merlot, 3% petit verdot and 3% cabernet franc. Best after 2029.

97+ -Jeb Dunnuck -

The deeply colored and glass-staining 2022 Château Giscours is packed with cassis, black cherries, violets, and graphite-like aromatics. Medium to full-bodied, it’s concentrated and intense, with beautifully ripe tannins, a pure, graceful mouthfeel, and a long, structured finish. There’s serious depth here, and while it already shows remarkable balance, I suspect it will shut down for a period before emerging as a classic Margaux a decade or so after the vintage. This beauty is going to be long-lived, and you can expect at least 30-40 years of prime drinking. Based on 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, and equal parts Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, it’s a serious, age-worthy Giscours. Tasted multiple times with consistent results.

96 -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

The 2022 Giscours has realized all the potential it showed en primeur, wafting from the glass with a deep bouquet of sweet berries, mint, rose petals and pencil shavings. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, it's textural and enveloping, built around lively acids and sweet powdery tannins, concluding with a long, resonant finish. As I pondered two years ago, why is the 2022 so good? There are many reasons, but one is the high proportion of old vines—almost 60% of the blend derives from vines that are over 50 years old—in a vintage that favored vines with deep, well-established root systems. Another is the increasing precision of harvesting at this address: Giscours's old vines are frequently co-planted with younger replacements that have filled any gaps in the ranks over the years; so, blocks are now picked in two or three passages instead of all at once, with the younger vines picked first. The team also adapted hedging practices to limit hydric stress, which helps to explain the sweetness of the tannins.

96 -Decanter -

A seriously impressive and beguiling Giscous in 2022 and one of the most elegant. A remarkable wine with gorgeous clarity and purity and just the most gentle seduction, even more so because it really doesn't feel as if it's trying too hard yet still delivering depth and complexity. Fresh and lifted, fragrant and so juicy but with textured tannins that give both the weight, structure and density to the quite bright, tangy, vibrant fruit. Nicely composed, feels quite powerful yet restrained and finessed offering lots of immediate drinking appeal but with a serious backbone that suggests long ageing too. Elegant, fineseed, subtle confidence with such cool minerality that gives freshness all the way through. It's not the most dense, or fleshy, but so refined. A compelling wine. Possible upscore in bottle. 3% Cabernet Franc completes the blend. 3.70pH. A yield of 27hl/ha, the lowest ever. No Sirene de Giscours this year. 100% grand vin. Ageing 17 months, 50% new oak. 10-15% press wine. Tasted twice.

96 -Vinous -

The 2022 Giscours has a very classy, sophisticated bouquet with mineral-laden black fruit, wilted violet and crushed stone, precise with seamlessly integrated oak. The palate is silky smooth, beautifully balanced, fleshy and ripe with wonderful depth. Caressing, so much so that it disguises its power, plus there is impressive length and complexity on the finish. Clearly one of the best wines of the last decade. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting in London.

96 -Wine Enthusiast -

95 -Wine Spectator -

Warmed cassis and plum notes form the core, while lilting lilac, violet and iris accents stream throughout. Offers a flash of black tea on the finish, along with a beguiling, cashmerelike mouthfeel. Judicious toast lets it all play out beautifully. A pitch-perfect example of the vintage profile. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2026 through 2040. 15,000 cases made.

Technical Details

Blend 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc
Winemaker Lorenzo Pasquini & Thomas Duclos
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub Region Left Bank
Appellation Margaux
Vineyard Estate vineyards of Château Giscours, a Grand Cru Classé (troisième cru)
Farming Method Organic Practices
Oak 50% new French oak barrels
Fermentation Manually sorted and fully destemmed, then optically sorted and cold soaked before fermentation in temperature-controlled concrete and stainless steel tanks. 35-day extended maceration on the skins. Malolactic fermentation completed in barrel.
Aging / Cooperage 17 months
Alcohol 13.5%
Production 15,000 cases

Château Giscours Margaux Grand Cru 2022

Name: Château Giscours Margaux Grand Cru 2022
Brand: First Bottle
SKU: 1012859
Price: 89.95 USD
Availability: InStock

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Château Giscours Margaux Grand Cru 2022 is a confident revelation from one of Bordeaux’s most storied estates. With a history reaching back to the 14th century and a reputation cemented in the 1855 classification, Giscours has long balanced elegance with power, and the 2022 feels like a culmination of sorts. Named Wine Spectator’s #2 Wine of 2025 and awarded an emphatic 98 points by James Suckling, this is a vintage that captures Margaux at its most ravishing, with arresting poise, full-throttle aromatics, and a stunning price of UNDER $90.

In the glass, this a cacophony of black currant and ripe plum building out a finely tuned core, with violet, cigar box, and crushed stone softly humming underneath. The sensual texture is all silk and precision, and the polished structure promises decades of evolution ahead. Subtle notes of grapher, cedar, and a flicker of dark chocolate linger on the expansive finish, making this irrefutably seductive, yet incredibly thought-provoking as it unveils new layers with every sip.

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About The Producer

Giscours has a long, rich history, which can be traced back to the fourteenth century. At that time it was a defensive tower overlooking a wild and inhospitable region. The real beginning came in 1552, when Pierre de Lhomme, a wealthy Bordeaux draper, bought a nobleman’s house called “Guyscoutz”; he proceeded to turn it into a vast estate and planted the first vines. Wine production was launched and each of the rich merchant’s successors made their own contribution to this magnificent building. It was in the nineteenth century under the promise, Pescatore and Cruse families that Giscours gained much of its finery: the château was transformed into neoclassical palace, architect Eugene Bülher and the production facilities were modernized with the construction of huge buildings, including the famous "Ferme Suzanne."

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