The 2014 Marquis d'Alesme Becker is a refined Bordeaux with a tightly wound bouquet featuring black fruit, melted tar, and violets. While currently restrained, the wine offers complexity and nuance, with a medium-bodied palate marked by slightly tough tannins that suggest it will improve with age. Critics recommend cellaring until 2025-2035 for it to reach its full potential. The estate, a Grand Cru Classé from 1855, benefits from exceptional terroir in the Margaux region, producing wines with concentration and elegance. The blend is predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon (63%), with Merlot (30%), and a touch of Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc.

The Wine Advocate | RP 92
Published: Mar 31, 2017
Drink: 2025-2035

The 2014 Marquis d'Alesme Becker has a tightly wound bouquet that is not quite as expressive as the 2014 Labégorce that I tasted alongside. Black fruit here, a touch of melted tar and violets, but it needs several years. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly tough tannin on the entry. This does not quite "flow" as well as its peers at the moment, although there is satisfying complexity and nuance on the finish that suggests it simply needs more bottle age. The salinity on the aftertaste is very pleasing.

Decanter | D 90
Published: Apr 13, 2015
Drink: 2019-2028

Good density of cassis fruit, polished winemaking and good tannins. This is hugely improved.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Full
Grapes: 7% Cabernet Franc 57% Cabernet Sauvignon 31% Merlot

Grand Cru Classé in 1855, Marquis d’Alesme Becker contributes in its way to building the history and reputation of Margaux. 
Its successive owners, well-known for their cosmopolitan culture, helped to develop the estate over the centuries, guided by a love of beauty and the desire to produce a great wine.
Today Nathalie Perrodo continues, with great enthusiasm, to pursue her father’s goals, while bringing a new dynamic to the estate. Alongside Marjolaine Maurice de Coninck, General Director, she is writing a new chapter in the history of the estate, where the meticulous care that is taken to make a Great Wine is superbly reflected in the tasting experience.

In one of the world’s most prestigious wine-growing areas, the terroir of Marquis d’Alesme offers all the right conditions for achieving the level of excellence necessary for great wines. The soil (gravelly-siliceous, marly-siliceous and clay & limestone), is ideally exposed on natural gentle slopes. The weather is mild thanks to the presence of the nearby Gironde estuary.
This unique environment produces a great wine with an exceptionally rich range of flavours.

Like a garden, the Marquis d’Alesme vineyard is cultivated with passion and loving care. Each plant is chosen then observed and pampered over the seasons so that it produces the finest fruits.
The Cabernet “family” reigns supreme here, representing 70% of the grape varieties used (63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc). They bring concentration and structure, and comprise the backbone of the wine, while Merlot (30% of the grape varieties) gives a delicate roundness. Elegant and refined, often with a bouquet featuring floral and black fruit notes, the wines of Marquis d’Alesme are richly flavourful, with juicy blackcurrant, blackberry, and blueberry notes alongside well-balanced minerality.