Alter Ego de Palmer
In Margaux, Alter Ego de Palmer isn’t a “second wine” in the lazy sense; it’s the estate’s other register. Château Palmer began shaping it deliberately from 1998 onward, drawing from the same Margaux mosaic of gravelly soils that hold heat by day and release it slowly at night. Selection starts at harvest—grapes are chosen for the kind of energy they carry—then the cellar turns surgical: vinification is adapted vat by vat, as if each lot needed its own tuning. The ambition is immediacy without simplification: a Margaux that offers earlier charm yet keeps Palmer’s poise—violet notes, supple tannins, and a dark-fruit core edged with cool, stony lift.
Drink it and you don’t get a smaller Palmer; you get Palmer closer to the pulse. Around the vines, pastureland and living cover crops signal a broader idea of balance: wine as an ecosystem, not just a blend.Alter Ego de Palmer
In Margaux, Alter Ego de Palmer isn’t a “second wine” in the lazy sense; it’s the estate’s other register. Château Palmer began shaping it deliberately from 1998 onward, drawing from the same Margaux mosaic of gravelly soils that hold heat by day and release it slowly at night. Selection starts at harvest—grapes are chosen for the kind of energy they carry—then the cellar turns surgical: vinification is adapted vat by vat, as if each lot needed its own tuning. The ambition is immediacy without simplification: a Margaux that offers earlier charm yet keeps Palmer’s poise—violet notes, supple tannins, and a dark-fruit core edged with cool, stony lift.
Drink it and you don’t get a smaller Palmer; you get Palmer closer to the pulse. Around the vines, pastureland and living cover crops signal a broader idea of balance: wine as an ecosystem, not just a blend.
