Updated: Apr 23, 2024
With its purple hue and tight rim, the wine vintage stands out with its plush, dark, berry-fruited taste. It's a youthful wine with a leathery and meaty finish, and its tame tannins add to its appeal. This vintage, darker and more intense than its 2012, 2013, and 2015 counterparts, is a must-have for those seeking an exciting comparison.
VindeVert awards 92 points: The aromatic and slightly fresh nose is a sensory delight, revealing notes of fresh blackberry, crème de cassis, and small wild berries, with hints of ripe pepper, woody nuances, mocha, and a touch of pepper. The fruity, sophisticated palate is a journey of unctuosity, tension, juiciness, and fat, framed by freshness, suavity, gourmandise, and precision. In the mouth, this wine unfolds with notes of blackberry cream, fleshy cassis, juicy raspberry, chocolate, toasted oak, and a subtle hint of almond/Bourbon vanilla on the finish. The well-built tannins and discreet hint of chocolate on the persistence add to the overall sensory experience. Edited.
Updated: Apr 16, 2024
A light style of wine, with a bright, red fruit and herbal character or early drinking consumption. Good length-tamed tannins. Consistent style. Stylistically, it offers a consistent yet unique red-fruited and forward style, which is rare to come by in last decade of hot years.
VindeTert awarded 93 points and writes, 'The nose is aromatic and elegant. It reveals notes of boysenberry, plum and delicate notes of cassis associated with a touch of undergrowth, mocha and flowers. The palate is fruity, gourmand, elegant, fleshy, complete, and racy and offers a beautiful definition, a mineral structure, roundness, suavity and an unctuous matter. On the palate, this wine expresses notes of cassis, blackberry and delicate notes of strawberry plum combined with touches of liquorice, chocolate, tobacco, a few slight touches of caramelized oak and a discreet touch of vanilla. Tannins are fine and elegant.' (Edited).
Licorice, coffee, floral, plum, damp earth and cassis scents pop from the deep-rubied, tight-rimed wine. With rich, fat, round textures and a sweet, ripe, liquorice, chocolate and plum-tinged finish, this fleshy, opulent Margaux wine is already starting to drink well purple and weighty. Kirwan 2011 is still structured yet relatively tamed and can crack right away. Compared to 2010, 2000, 2003 and 2012, which we tried in a roll, this 2011 is lightishly elegant; it gives a mouthful of purple flowers, mineral, red currant, and cherry notes mingle together and carry through the focused finish. Tannins are textured and fresh. 2011 is blend with 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc and 6% Petit Verdot. Farr mentioned that the Boissenots had consulted here since 2007 (replacing Michel Rolland), and the wine is now less new-oak, less late-picked and less jammy in style. Kirwan is now a wine of classic Margaux elegance. There is good purity and structure, well-rounded tannins, and attractive red fruit. Still, it will need some time to open.
Scores are consistent and good. 92 Tim Atkins; 91 Jesannie CHo Lee, 91 GG.
