Chateau Marjosse Single Vineyard Bordeaux from Pierre Lurton at 50% off!!
“It is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing...
it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.”
― Homer, The Odyssey
Follow the wine! With enough good wine anything is possible!!
I have some bad news for wine club members this week, we are sold out on both sides of the Wine Watch on Friday night so the wine bar will only be available to wine club members Friday from 12pm – 5pm.
Wine Bar Revised Hours
Monday May 4th– 12pm – 9pm
Tuesday May 5th – 12pm – 5pm
(Wine Bar Closed for Private Event at 5pm)
Wednesday – 12pm – 9pm
Thursday – 12pm – 5pm
(Happy Hour Chardonnay Tasting begins at 6pm)
Friday – 12pm – 5pm
(We have a private event that starts at 6pm)
Saturday 12pm – 10pm
Good News for Wine Club Members! We have an amazing deal on the single vineyard wines of Chateau Marjosse - 50% off!!
A Exclusive Offer for Wine Club Members ONLY!
Here we go our first exclusive offering for wine club members! Chateau Marjosse is owned by one of the legends of Bordeaux Pierre Lurton, the managing director for Chateau D’Yquem and Chateau Cheval Blanc. Chateau Marjosse is the place where Pierre calls home and one of the greatest values in Bordeaux
The entry level Bordeaux from this Chateau is one of the best values in Bordeaux but these single vineyard and single plot wines are very unique and even thought the scores are not in the 95+ range the prices are not in the Cheval Blanc range either. These limited production whites and reds from Marjosse are excellent and we have a very limited amount of these wines at 50% off their regular price!!
Pierre Lurton’s Chateau Marjosse
2019 Chateau Marjosse Anthologie de Marjosse Cuvee Palombe Blanc Bordeaux
Price: $36.00 Wine Club Price $18.00 Quantity in Stock: 121
(89+ Points) The 2019 Cuvée Palombe offers up a complex, delicately oaky bouquet with aromas of ripe pear, fresh herbs, lemon oil, honeycomb and a touch of exotic fruits, followed by a medium to full-bodied, round and broad palate with a long, penetrating finish. There is no reason to wait. This is a blend of one-third Sauvignon Blanc, one-third Sauvignon Gris and one-third Sémillon derived from 40- to 75-year-old grapes planted on clay-limestone soils. Published: Nov 30, 2023, Drink Date: 2023 – 2028, The Wine Advocate
2019 Chateau Marjosse Anthologie de Marjosse 'Cuvee Hirondelle' Blanc Vin de France
Price: $36.00 Wine Club Price $18.00 Quantity in Stock: 26
Anthologie de Marjosse Cuvée Hirondelle 2019 from Château Marjosse is produced under the Vin de France appellation from 75-year-old vines rooted in clay-limestone soils. Made exclusively from muscadelle, this cuvée takes its name from the common trait shared by this grape variety and the swallow, namely its demanding nature and its fragility.
(91 Points) The 2019 Cuvée Hirondelle, a 100% Muscadelle, is showing well today, revealing aromas of ripe pear, mirabelle, fresh herbs, rose petal, peony and smoke, followed by a medium-bodied, fleshy and gourmand palate with a rich core of fruit and a delicate, persistent finish. This is an excellent rendition of this unusual grape in Bordeaux. Drink Date: 2023 – 2028, The Wine Advocate
2018 Chateau Marjosse Anthologie de Marjosse Cuvee les Truffiers Bordeaux
Price: $36.00 Wine Club Price $18.00 Quantity in Stock: 47
Truffiers 2018 has an intense color, the bouquet combines ripe fruit (blackcurrant, black cherries), toasted and mentholated notes. The palate is powerful and dynamic, combining volume and fat, evolving with finesse with chalky tannins, fleshy well extracted.
(89 Points) From a clay-limestone parcel from Château Marjosse, the 2018 Cuvée Les Truffiers, deriving from old Merlot vines, shows a profound, dense bouquet with aromas of wild dark berries, licorice, oak and sweet spices. Medium to full-bodied, dense and concentrated, it’s seamless and built around ripe, powdery tannins. It’s approachable now but also built to evolve with grace. Drink Date: 2023 – 2028 The Wine Advocate
2019 Chateau Marjosse Anthologie de Marjosse Cuvee Ortolan Vin de France
Price: $36.00 Wine Club Price $18.00 Quantity in Stock: 33
100% Cabernet Franc pops with cigar wrapper, herbs, flowers and mushroom tinged red fruits. On the palate the wine is soft, fresh, medium-bodied and focused on its refined, herbal, cherry tinted core of red berries.
2019 Chateau Marjosse Anthologie de Marjosse Cuvee Hirondelle Bordeaux
Price: $36.00 Wine Club Price $18.00 Quantity in Stock: 26
Floral and spicy notes on the bouquet. Good balance with hints of yellow fruit and apricot. The finish is delicate and supported by a balanced acidity.
Chateau Marjosse - the entry level red and white
Every year, technical and cultural improvements are made in order to offer a superior quality in each vintage. In 2015, we have further reduced the volume of the harvest (through green harvesting and a stricter selection of berries) in order to gain in precision and quality. Pierre Lurton follows in the footsteps of one of the best known and respected families in Bordeaux. Grandson and son of a winegrower, he has at heart to enhance the value of a terroir from which he originates and which he still lives in today, that of the Entre-deux-Mers.
2023 Chateau Marjosse Bordeaux Blanc, France
Price: $21.00 Wine Club Price $17.85
A blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris, Muscadelle and Semillon. A light briny character to the green melon and a slight earthy onion skin like spicy character to the nose. A bright and refreshing style of Sauvignon Blanc with a clean zesty finish, nice minerality, a savory tongue tingly finish. Finish 35+ Very Good
2022 Chateau Marjosse Rouge Bordeaux
Price: $23.00 Wine Club Price $`19.55
(91 Points) The 2022 Marjosse is a bright, nervy red. Floral notes, orange peel, mint and white pepper lend notable energy throughout. Readers will find an atypically vibrant wine for the year. More than anything else, the 2022 represents a pretty significant shift for Marjosse toward a style that focuses on greater freshness than in the past. Drinking Window: 2025 – 2037, Antonio Galloni, January 2025
2020 Chateau Marjosse Rouge Bordeaux
Price: $27.00 Wine Club Price $22.95
(91 Points) A touch of reduction on the nose which clears as it relaxes in the glass. This is well put together, has definition and finesse, and is punching above its weight in the appellation. Ambitious, well managed tannins and juicy red fruits; 2% Malbec completes the plantings. I don't have the 2020 blend. Decanter
A bit about Chateau Marjosse:
A historical property located 14 km South of Saint Emilion, first built in 1782. It is surrounded by 40 acres of vineyards which sit on exceptional clay and limestone soils. Winemaker Pierre Lurton, born and raised in a neighboring château, bought the property piece by piece, starting in 1991, and has been producing widely-acclaimed and sensibly-priced reds and whites since then.
There are vines young and old (even some planted in the 1920s!) of various grape kinds. Merlot, malbec, cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon make up the red blend while the white mixes sauvignon blanc, sémillion and a touch of the very aromatic Muscadelle.
Owner and winemaker Pierre Lurton likes to refer to Château Marjosse as his secret garden, and for good reason. Together with technical director Jean-Marc Domme (who lives and did his training in nearby Pomerol), he applies his “Grand Cru” principles to this less-known corner of Bordeaux. The parcels, first planted in the 1880s and replaced with American rootstock after the phylloxera era, are tended year-round by Jean-Marc’s team – from plowing to Guyot pruning to harvesting. The property’s 40 acres of vineyards are a mixed patchwork (all unique in their own way) containing young and old vines – merlot, cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, sémillion, sauvignon blanc, muscadelle…and even some rows of malbec from the 1940s!
Once harvested, grapes are sorted and gently pressed in pneumatic presses.
The first known resident of Château Marjosse was a wine merchant called Bernard Chénier, born in 1758, who left the city of Bordeaux to move into the imposing XVIII Century “Chartreuse” with his wife Catherine Clémentine Fiton. According to historical records “Marjosse was a source of happiness for the family”. It was at that time that the first vines were planted, on no less than 56 different parcels – quite a few more than what exists today. The modest “chais”, or winemaking cellar, was adjacent to the beautifully symmetrical stone house and contained big wooden vats for fermenting the must (later lost to a big fire and re-built out of cement).
Jacques Clément, son of the couple, lived at Marjosse with wife Clémentine Vitrac, whose family was also in the wine business ( in nearby Libourne). Eventually the couple sold the property and it fell into the hands of the Deleuze family. Wealthy magnate Alban Deleuze was also the director of the Magasins du Louvre in Paris and added a huge extension to the house filled with marble fireplaces and bathroom sinks that came from the Hotel de Crillon (they were removed during big renovations done in the 1940’s). When he passed away the property was inherited by his son Georges, a high-ranking general in the French army. At that time they delegated the winemaking to to the property’s caretakers.. It was only in 1990, once the General was already retired, that he decided to rent out some of the parcels to a young and ambitious winemaker called Pierre Lurton. Raised by his winemaking father Dominic in the neighbouring Château Reynier, Pierre had learned how to tend to vines and to make wine with his father and, later, with his uncles André and Lucien, who hired him to work at Clos Fourtet in Saint-Émilion.
Pierre vinified his first Marjosses entirely by hand and nearly without help, working through many nights. The following year he was hired as manager of the prestigious Château Cheval Blanc, but continued to work on his own property during his off hours. The entire 1991 vintage was lost due to frost, posing immense economic pressure on the budding entrepreneur but he took out some bank loans and forged ahead. In 1992 Pierre moved into a manager’s house at Château Marjosse with his wife and first child. Over the years he slowly purchased bits and pieces of the property from the Deleuze family, all the while paying them “fermage” fees to harvest and vinify their grapes. In 2000 he built a state-of-the-art cellar more than 180 meters long, containing over 40 cement vats. It took another thirteen years before the Deleuze heirs (brothers François and Michel) reluctantly agreed to sell the remaining parts of the property to Pierre, including the magnificent stone Chartreuse.
In 2014 Pierre began an extensive restoration of the Chartreuse, carefully bringing floors, mouldings and fireplaces back to their original state. It is now his main residence. In 2017 he hired Jean-Marc Domme as winemaker and technical director and opened a new chapter in the winery’s history. In 2017, for the first time, parcels were vinified separately and they began plans to create small-batch cuvées made from the grapes in the most notable parcels, each with its own characteristics and micro-climate. The rest of the story is still being written, as Pierre and Jean-Marc delve deeper and deeper into the subtleties of this magnifcent terroir seeking to capture its essence in liquid form.
The red grapes are vinified separately depending on the type of grape (cépage) and the parcel. The red ferments in temperature-controlled cement vats and the cap is pumped over regularly (remontage). After 20-25 days of maceration Pierre and Jean-Marc select the best vats over numerous tastings and agree on the final blend. Malolactic fermentation takes place during December after which the wine is transferred to French oak barrels (around 50% new). Racking of the barrels takes place for twelve months.
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