Ep 562: The Greats of Bordeaux – Margaux

Wine for Normal People

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This is the second in the Greats series on Bordeaux. This time, the first, most southerly, and most famed commune of the Médoc, Margaux. Surely this is one of the world’s greatest regions, with the only major appellation with a château named after the region, Château Margaux.

Margaux is a 1,500 ha/3,700 acre communal appellation on the Left Bank of Bordeaux, 25 km/15 miles north of the city of Bordeaux in the Médoc. Margaux is the largest Médoc AOC, representing 9% of Medoc vineyards and an average of 6.5 million bottles yearly, depending on vintage. Due to its size, the region has varied soils, and that means that as much as people like to generalize about Margaux being elegant and pretty, it’s not as simple as that.

In this show, I cover everything about Margaux -- history, terroir, climate, sustainability, and then the top Châteaux. I break it down into digestible bites and try to convince you that these wines are certainly something that you must try!

H ere is a link to the 1855 Classification

Here are the Châteaux that are open to the public

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:15.8	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book and Certified Wine Dork.
0:21.6	This show is sponsored by Wine Access, the go-to source of people in the wine industry for hard-to-find, limited production, high-quality wines at great prices.
0:30.1	If you're like me and don't have time to shop in person, you can hop online anytime at wineaccess.com slash WFMP to get to the site or better yet. Let me make it easy for you
0:40.7	by selecting your wines for you. Join my wine club at wine access.com slash normal and we'll send you
0:46.8	six amazing bottles quarterly for just $150. Listen in the middle of the show for more details.
0:53.9	I just got back from my trip with the patrons to Campania, more specifically to
1:01.5	Europenia and then also to Basilica, although we hit a lot of the different areas of Campania.
1:09.1	And the trip was absolutely fantastic. If you have been listening
1:13.0	for a while, you know that I am in love with the Fianno grape and Greco di Tufo, and I love
1:18.1	Algae, Tarazi, which is the Appalachian, for Algonico. And a number of years ago, after one of
1:25.2	the patron trips to Tuscany, I went by myself to Irpina
1:29.1	or Avalino, which is the province that has these wonderful wines, and explored and made
1:35.0	some wonderful friendships and relationships, and then just brought this group of patrons
1:39.6	back to visit. It was a spectacular trip. It will definitely be held again for those of you who are
1:46.2	patrons who did not get an opportunity to sign up. But I think the lesson that we all had is that
1:51.7	these wines are under the radar, unbelievably affordable, and delicious like no other. So if you have
1:59.1	not had Fiano de Avellino or Greco di Tufo in the world of whites,
2:03.2	or Tarazi in the world of Reds, or Alianico del Vultre in the world of Reds, you definitely
2:10.2	need to get on it. There is so much elegance and depth and structure in these wines.
2:15.0	I can't say enough great things. Also afterwards, I
2:17.6	went with, I give a shout-out to my travel companions, Tina and Bill, and we went to Matera,
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