1956
1956
1956
1956 was certainly a very challenging year—but isn’t it in such vintages that the greatest terroirs reveal their magic? Admittedly light, its elegance and delicacy won us over the last time we tasted it, in 2006, to celebrate the 50th birthday of Paul Pontallier, Managing Director of Château Margaux from 1989 to 2015. (2006)
Climate
The winter, which will be remembered for its record cold weather (it was -20°C in Bordeaux and the Garonne river had blocks of ice floating along it...), was fatal to numerous plots in the Bordeaux region -but not in Margaux, where the vines suffered very little. But the growing season got underway very late, and the cold and rainy summer finally sealed the sad fate of this vintage. (The picking began 8th October)
1956 was certainly a very challenging year—but isn’t it in such vintages that the greatest terroirs reveal their magic? Admittedly light, its elegance and delicacy won us over the last time we tasted it, in 2006, to celebrate the 50th birthday of Paul Pontallier, Managing Director of Château Margaux from 1989 to 2015. (2006)
Climate
The winter, which will be remembered for its record cold weather (it was -20°C in Bordeaux and the Garonne river had blocks of ice floating along it...), was fatal to numerous plots in the Bordeaux region -but not in Margaux, where the vines suffered very little. But the growing season got underway very late, and the cold and rainy summer finally sealed the sad fate of this vintage. (The picking began 8th October)
Service & tasting
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Service & tasting
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