2011 Red Wine from Margaux

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: Power and ripeness walk hand-in-hand with this major player. The wine is opulent and extracted with flavors of rich blackberry fruits, but shows a firmness in tannins and dense texture. Drink from 2018 and it's sure to be...

Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: A solidly structured wine, it is both elegant and intensely powerful. It is disclosing its fruitiness slowly, at the moment dense and concentrated. A restrained edge provides complexity and balance. It will need aging, so...

Wine Spectator, 96 points: This is succulent with an almost jammy cassis plum and black currant profile though that's quickly harnessed by riveting acidity on the finish which lets additional floral bay leaf tobacco and perfume notes play out...

Wine Spectator, 96 points: This is succulent with an almost jammy cassis plum and black currant profile though that's quickly harnessed by riveting acidity on the finish which lets additional floral bay leaf tobacco and perfume notes play out...

Wine Spectator, 96 points: This is succulent with an almost jammy cassis plum and black currant profile though that's quickly harnessed by riveting acidity on the finish which lets additional floral bay leaf tobacco and perfume notes play out...

Wine Enthusiast, 92 points: A perfumed wine floral and flowery. The spices and wood comes from its tannins which are very present. But there's also friendly berry fruits plum skins and on the finish acidity.-R.V.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: An opaque ruby/purple color is accompanied by notes of creme de cassis and licorice intermixed with notions of truffles and graphite. Rich full-bodied and concentrated the 2011 Boyd-Cantenac merits serious interest...