Wine Enthusiast
90 points
Maucamps is situated in Macau, just south of Margaux, giving it a stylish character. It has weight, of course, but this is given perspective by the structured black fruits and supporting tannin. A dry core will allow the wine to age. Drink from 2018. – Roger Voss
90 points
Situated at the southern end of the Haut-Médoc, close to Margaux, this estate has produced a warm, ripe wine. The tannins are very present, still young and up-front. However the rich red-berry and black-currant fruits have plenty of weight to allow the wine to age. Drink from 2018. – Roger Voss
90 points
This is a powerful wine with a strong presence of Cabernet Sauvignon to give structure as well as fruit. The wine has great acidity and a rich texture along with ripe plum and black-currant fruit. It comes from an 18th-century estate in the southern Médoc. Drink from 2022. – Roger Voss
92 points
From the southern part of the Haut-Médoc, this Tessandier family wine is a richly structured blend with Cabernet Sauvignon dominant. It has a dry, firm and densely tannic structure along with ripe and potentially generous blackberry fruit. The combination will allow this dark, firm wine to age well. Drink from 2024. – Roger Voss
92 points
An impressive 19th-century chateau dominates this 46-acre vineyard. With 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine is full of black-currant flavors, ripe tannins and a dense texture. The wine has potential and will be ready to drink from 2023. – Roger Voss
91 points
Situated in the village of Macau just south of Margaux, the 47-acre vineyard has produced this wood-aged wine that shows plenty of ripe fruits. A touch of licorice goes with juicy blackberry fruits and acidity to balance the wine. It has a good future and this wine should be ready from 2023. – Roger Voss
91 points
Balanced between tannins and black fruits, this wine is dense and solid, showing the opulent fruit of this vintage. It does have a structure and therefore aging potential, rich in blackberry flavors and with a dry core. Drink from 2023. – Roger Voss
Jancis Robinson
90 points
Maucamps is situated in Macau, just south of Margaux, giving it a stylish character. It has weight, of course, but this is given perspective by the structured black fruits and supporting tannin. A dry core will allow the wine to age. Drink from 2018. – Roger Voss
90 points
Situated at the southern end of the Haut-Médoc, close to Margaux, this estate has produced a warm, ripe wine. The tannins are very present, still young and up-front. However the rich red-berry and black-currant fruits have plenty of weight to allow the wine to age. Drink from 2018. – Roger Voss
90 points
This is a powerful wine with a strong presence of Cabernet Sauvignon to give structure as well as fruit. The wine has great acidity and a rich texture along with ripe plum and black-currant fruit. It comes from an 18th-century estate in the southern Médoc. Drink from 2022. – Roger Voss
92 points
From the southern part of the Haut-Médoc, this Tessandier family wine is a richly structured blend with Cabernet Sauvignon dominant. It has a dry, firm and densely tannic structure along with ripe and potentially generous blackberry fruit. The combination will allow this dark, firm wine to age well. Drink from 2024. – Roger Voss
92 points
An impressive 19th-century chateau dominates this 46-acre vineyard. With 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine is full of black-currant flavors, ripe tannins and a dense texture. The wine has potential and will be ready to drink from 2023. – Roger Voss
91 points
Situated in the village of Macau just south of Margaux, the 47-acre vineyard has produced this wood-aged wine that shows plenty of ripe fruits. A touch of licorice goes with juicy blackberry fruits and acidity to balance the wine. It has a good future and this wine should be ready from 2023. – Roger Voss
91 points
Balanced between tannins and black fruits, this wine is dense and solid, showing the opulent fruit of this vintage. It does have a structure and therefore aging potential, rich in blackberry flavors and with a dry core. Drink from 2023. – Roger Voss
James Suckling
91 points
Plum, dark-fruit and spice aromas and flavors. It’s full-bodied with firm, creamy tannins. Fleshy texture on the mid-palate with a dark chocolate and ink-link undertone. Savory finish. Try after 2023.
Neal Martin
90 points
The 2014 Maucamps has a very well defined bouquet, beautiful oak integrated that allows the brambly black fruit to flourish. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannin, well judged acidity, harmonious and silky-smooth. This is a seductive, very well crafted Haut-Médoc that will give a lot of pleasure over the next decade. Tasted September 2016.
90 points
Tasted at the Cru Bourgeois annual tasting, the 2015 Maucamps has a well-defined and quite detailed bouquet with blackberry, raspberry and tobacco scents, gaining moderate intensity in the glass with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannin, fresh and unashamedly old school with a taut, spicy finish that lingers nicely in the glass. Excellent—this is a strong follow-up to the equally wonderful 2014. Tasted September 2017.
Vert de Vin
The nose is aromatic and offers a fine concentration. We find notes of blackcurrant and violet associated with hints of red fruits, a racy minerality as well as subtle hints of spices, and a very discreet/imperceptible hint of pepper. The palate is fresh, fruity and offers juiciness, tension as well as a certain finesse/straightness. On the palate, this wine expresses notes of cherry, raspberry, and blackcurrant associated with touches of melted chocolate and caramelized wood as well as a subtle hint of wood/hazelnut. The tannins are fine, structured, and slightly firm. Good length. Presence of a hint of caramelization on the aftertaste.
90-91 points
The nose is fruity, finely tight, and offers a little concentration, a little power, and freshness. There are notes of luscious blackberry, wild raspberry, and slight notes of violet associated with small touches of racy minerality, discreet hints of camphor, nutmeg, and a subtle hint of pepper. The palate is fruity and offers juiciness, smoothness, good definition, a certain gourmandise, a little tension, smoothness, a little controlled richness, and a lovely flesh of the fruit flavors. On the palate, this wine expresses notes of fleshy raspberry, juicy/fleshy wild strawberry, and small notes of violet associated with touches of pulpy/acidulous violet plum as well as hints of cardamom, caramelization, discreet hints of sweet blond tobacco and a subtle hint of toasted almond/the tannins are precise and finely soft. Good length. A very discreet hint of star anise on the persistence.
Le Guide Hachette des Vins
2*
A serious and well-located property, this vintage deserves to be discovered. Its 2000 has no shortage of assets: beautiful garnet presentation, complex bouquet with fruity, candied notes and a touch of mocha, round and fleshy attack, robust and elegant structure, and spicy finish, everything suggests good aging potential.
1*
Those familiar with the wine will perhaps be surprised not to find its usual structure in this vintage. But they will be seduced by its delicate character and its fine fruity and vanilla aromas. Well constituted and of good complexity, the whole is already pleasant while still being able to evolve favorably.
1*
Although it is not very well known to the general public, this vintage has carved out a nice reputation among amateurs. This vintage will only reinforce it with a wine well in the spirit of the appellation through its structure, whose silky and rich tannins combine aptitude for aging and distinction. We will fully appreciate it in two or three years.
1*
The 2012 lives up to its terroir. Deep and brilliant garnet color, fine and complex bouquet evoking jammy red and black fruits, toast, vanilla, tobacco, and leather, typical Haut-Médoc palate, ample, fatty, powerful, with velvety tannins, more austere in finish: everything is in place to make a good bottle in a few years.
1*
The blend includes Petit Verdot (10%) alongside Cabernet Sauvignon, followed by Merlot. The charm of the intense black cherry color is found in the complex bouquet with elegant aging notes combining vanilla, cedar, mint, and licorice, then on the palate. With a pleasant roundness on the attack, the latter is built on velvety tannins and enhanced with a touch of smoke.
1*
Although it still remains a little closed in its fruity and woody bouquet, this wine demonstrates great elegance both through its beautiful purple color and through the flavors full of distinction on the palate. The latter lacks neither volume nor power, with a solid tannic framework in support.
2*
Garnet, dense, shiny, and limpid: the color is a good foreword to what the tasting will be like. Quite intense and complex (black fruits, wild strawberry, raspberry, spices, and tobacco), the bouquet opens a captivating first chapter. No one would want to go through the pages too quickly… Because this dense but silky wine, with a beautiful epilogue, deserves to be savored. We leave it to you to read it again in a few years.
1*
With a deep ruby color with cherry highlights, and a bouquet of beautiful intensity around pretty smoky, toasted, vanilla and fruity (black cherry) notes, this wine knows how to present itself. It does not disappoint on the palate. After a charming attack, we discover well-coated tannins and delicious flavors of blackberry and cherry.
Tasted - Andreas Larson
91 points
Dark purple colour. Fragrant nose with a fine blend of toasted oak, tobacco, cassis, tobacco and dark berries. Medium weight palate with dense fruit and good flavour intensity, crushed dark berry flavours, ripe tannin, a fresh backbone and a long pure finish.