While this wine certainly has power, it is its almost other-worldly floating character that is most striking. The fruit glides over the palate, leaving freshness with layers of intense acidity and wood to finish.
96 points - Wine Enthusiast, June 1, 2005
This wine showed the freshness of the vintage in its bright woodland-berry scent before settling into tannins that felt mineral, powerful and black. Directeur général Paul Pontallier commented at the time, "I consider this to be typical, absolutely, of Château Margaux." Two years on, the wine is definitively Margaux, from the fashionable scent of new oak, to the musculature and vinous strength of the fruit. The sweetness of the fraises des bois and plum seems improbable in the context of a completely dry, concentrated yet ethereal taste that doesn't stop. The wine will taunt you with its delicate, silken power whether you drink it in ten, 20 or 30 years.
96 points - Wine & Spirits, October 2007
Subtle and complex aromas of crushed raspberry, milk chocolate and cigar box. Full-bodied, silky and refined, with layers of fruit and seductive tannins. Very long. A Margaux with finesse and reserve. Best after 2011. 12,500 cases made.
93 points - Wine Spectator, March 31, 2007
The supple-textured 2004 Chateau Margaux is reminiscent of the 2001 or 1999. It exhibits a superb blue/purple color to the rim as well as sweet aromas of flowers, blueberries, creme de cassis, licorice, and smoke, superb fruit intensity, medium body, classic elegance, and silky, sweet tannin in the long finish. This beauty can be drunk now or cellared for two decades or more.
93 Points - The Wine Advocate (June 2007)
Bright medium ruby. Expressive aromas of blueberry, coffee, mocha, violet, dark chocolate and sexy oak; here one finds a bit more evidence of the estate's merlot. Then wonderfully sweet, plush and broad, especially in the context of the vintage. The blueberry and violet flavors are given added grip and lift by a very fresh minerality, and sweetened by nutty oak. In its way, this is more obviously Margaux than the young 2005. Finishes with noble tannins and outstanding persistence.
92-95 points - Stephen Tanzer's Int'l Cellar (May 2006) | 
