Château Margaux 199698 points Robert Parkers Wine Advocate, December 2023 When I used to drink this wine as a student, it generally left me a bit cold, but several recent bottles of the 1996 Chteau Margaux lead me to think that I must have had bad luck with a poorly stored batch of bottles. Along with Haut Brion, Margaux is the most forward of the 1996 first growths, offering up an expressive bouquet of creamy cassis fruit mingled with cigar wrapper, sweet spices,