2010 vintage offers a beautifully perfumed experience—think violets, blackcurrants, and mint—with a supple, lively palate. It’s medium-bodied yet firm, with well-integrated tannins, lifted acidity, and a refined balance. Clean and streamlined, it captures both elegance and structure—perfect for enjoying now or cellaring through 2040.

Decanter | D 96
Published: Apr 5, 2024
Drink: 2024-2040

Very perfumed: violets, irises and blackcurrants, supple and lively. Lifted and bright, with fruit and acidity to the fore. Lean and streamlined, tannic structure is there but no sign this has been pushed too far. Not trying too hard, clean and refined with noticeable acidity. A lovely wine.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Medium
Grapes: 71% Cabernet Sauvignon 29% Merlot

James Suckling | JS 95
Published: Nov 14, 2013

Aromas of mint and currants with hints of fresh herbs. Then turns to plum jam. Full body, with well-integrated tannins and pretty fruit. Long and caressing. This is really outstanding. Better in 2017.

Wine Spectator | WS 94
Published: Mar 31, 2013

Features a lightly firm, singed alder frame around a core of dark plum, cherry and cassis bush notes. Taut tar and warm paving stone notes fill in on the finish. Shows serious, well-embedded grip, and the core of fruit is spot on. This has the range, length and cut for the cellar. Best from 2014 through 2030.

The Wine Advocate | RP 92+
Published: Mar 5, 2020
Drink: 2020-2037

Deep garnet in color, the 2010 Giscours slips seductively out of the glass with notions of baked black cherries, mulberries and plum preserves plus hints of cassis, pencil lead and dried Provence herbs. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is toting a fair amount of oak with a sturdy frame of chewy tannins, coming through with a long, fruity finish.

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Château Giscours, a Grand Cru Classé in 1855, is a wine with a big personality that expresses the expertise of our teams and the full wealth of our terroir in the Margaux appellation.
Château Giscours is an elegant, well-structured wine with magnificently bright aromas. It is a wine that develops wonderfully over time, the enjoyment of which is passed down from generation to generation.

- 2010 -

A vintage of precision, one of the greatest ever produced at Giscours 2010 is a vintage of precision, one of the greatest ever produced at Giscours. Exceptional and unanimously acclaimed, precise and sensual, Château Giscours 2010 impresses with both its delicacy and structure. It is the rare expression of a perfect harmony between power and finesse, between tannins for great ageing and freshness.

“Liquid beauty!” as Denis Dubourdieu liked to say.

Breeding
Harvest
From September 27 to October 14

Vinification
Manual and optical sorting
Concrete and stainless steel vats
Maceration 35 days at 28°C

Aging
French oak barrels
50% new wood
17 months of barrel aging