Chateau d'Issan

Specification

Producer

Chateau d'Issan

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Cantenac, Margaux, Bordeaux

Classification

Third Growth (1855)

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot

Vintage

2005

Case

12 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

CHAISS0512X75

About this wine

Château d'Issan is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, typical of the gravel soils of Margaux. It is perfumed and elegant, with red and black fruit, violets and fine tannins, and has gained depth and concentration in recent decades. It usually needs around ten years to show its best and ages well for twenty years or more.

About Chateau d'Issan

Château d'Issan is in Cantenac, within the Margaux appellation, and was ranked Third Growth in the 1855 Classification. Its seventeenth-century château, surrounded by a moat, is one of the most picturesque in the Médoc, and the estate's motto speaks of wine for the tables of kings and the altars of the gods.

The Cruse family, long prominent as Bordeaux merchants, bought d'Issan in 1945 and still runs it. The vineyard lies on gravel soils near the Gironde, and the wine is a classic, fragrant Margaux that has gained depth and consistency in recent decades.