Wine

The 2015 Chateau Batailley Grand Cru Classe is a wine of class, pedigree and nuance. The 2015 Batailley wine from Pauillac is superb. This Pauillac wine beams of supporting tannin give the dark purplish flavors striking energy and cut. Graphite, smoke, violet, mint, dark cherry and plum notes continue to open up in the glass. The Chateau Batailley wine is a Pauillac with distinct Saint-Julien leanings, and that is exactly what comes across here.

The 2015 Chateau Batailley wine is a blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon and 28% Merlot, matured in 60% new oak. It was picked between 21 September until 2 October.

94 points James Suckling
94 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
91 points Wine Spectator

The 2015 Torremoron Reserva wine has an intense ruby red with violet reflections. On the nose, aromas of ripe fruit join notes of aging with a hint of minerals. This Reserva wine from Bodegas Torremoron is very well-balanced wood with supple integrated tannins. Full-bodied and with a strong, long-lasting taste.

Bodegas Torremoron which is located in Ribera del Duero, Spain is a cooperative founded in 1957 by 57 winemakers. Little by little, winemakers from neighbouring towns joined. Currently, and after a modernization of facilities at the end of the 90´s, Bodegas Torremoron has a great present and promising future. Torremoron takes its name from the 18th century word given to underground wine cellars.

Best paired with aged cheeses, pork sausage, steak, venison stew, lamb chops and beef goulash.

This 2015 Torremoron Reserva wine has a blend of 100% Tempranillo.

ABV: 13 %

One of the most original and most famous red wines of Italy. The main grape is corvina. The grapes are left to dry in baskets in well ventilated rooms for up to 4 months. The maturation in vats is long. The Bolla Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 2015 wine isbeautifully soft, powerful, rich and complex with hints of spice and cocoa. Full of character,long and complete. Aged in oak casks.

The Bouchard Pere & Fils Gevrey Chambertin 2015 wine has garnet color with purple shades. Intense bouquet developing colour with purple shades. Intense bouquet developing flavours of red fruit (raspberry, strawberry jam) entwined with delicate oaky hints. Refined and fleshy mouth, with harmonious tanins.

A wine of joy and pure pleasure, the 2015 Carmes de Rieussec is absolutely delicious. The 2015 Carmes de Rieussec wine has a pale to medium golden color and a lovely nose of lemon tart, orange marmalade and preserved apricots with hints of musk perfume and candied ginger. This Sauternes wine is medium to full-bodied, richly fruited and with compelling savory and earthy layers intermingled with the citrus preserves, it finishes with great freshness and length. The 2015 Carmes de Rieussec wine is composed of 87% Sémillon, 7% Sauvignon Blanc and 6% Muscadelle.

93 points Vinous
91 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
90 points Wine Spectator

The Second Wine of the prestigious Premier Grand Cru Classé – Château Lafite-Rothschild – the Carruades de Lafite 2015 reflects the identity of the great terroirs of Pauillac.

The 2015 Carruades de Lafite wine has a satisfying purity on the nose. This Carruades de Lafite has a blackberry and briary, a distant, cold slate-like note just underneath, with the new oak. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. There is moderate depth to this slightly foursquare and conservative Carruades, but there is also plenty of freshness and it has an appealing, unassuming finish that is both harmonious and precise.

This 2015 Carruades De Lafite has a blend of 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc.

95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points James Suckling
91 points Wine Advocate

This Casa Ferreirinha Callabriga 2015 has a deep ruby colour. This wine has an intense and complex aroma with floral notes, tropical fruit, black and red fruit, spices and a minerality that contains hints of wet shale. Wood of great quality is well-integrated and contributes to the aromatic complexity. On the palate, it has good volume, with excellent, rounded tannins and a fantastic acidity. Further aromas of red and tropical fruit come to the fore, along with floral notes and hints of cocoa, courtesy of an excellent maturation.

Casa Ferreirinha was the first Douro producer dedicated entirely to making table wines, rather than Port. Its origins date back to 1952 when Fernando Nicolau de Almeida produced the first ever vintage of Barca-Velha and kickstarted the quality revolution in Douro table wines. Named after the legendary Dona Antónia Ferreira, one of the formidable widows of the world of wine, Casa Ferreirinha pays homage to the memory of this visionary woman. Today, the winemaking team is headed up by Luís Sottomayor, who restrains the Douro’s natural exuberance to produce wines that have a vibrant freshness allied to a lovely texture and depth.

The Casa Ferreirinha Quinta da Leda 2015 has a deep ruby in colour, this wine has complex and intense aromas of black fruits, with spicy hints of black pepper and cloves. There are balsamic hints and subtle menthol notes with very well-integrated oak. On the palate, it has fine tannins, with a well-developed acidity resulting in a long finish.

This vineyard in the Douro Superior is used as part of the blend for the legendary Barca Velha. In other years, it shows its qualities as a single-vineyard wine. The 2015 Quinta da Leda is a blend of 50% Touriga Franca, 20% Touriga Nacional and 15% each of Tinto Cão and Tinta Roriz, aged for 18 months in an equal mixture of new and used French oak.

96 Wine Enthusiast
94 Wine Spectator
94 Mark Squires – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2015 Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot wine has a very intense bouquet with copious black cherries, kirsch and blueberry fruit, just a slight warmth of alcohol but nothing too much to get concerned about. The palate is rounded and sexy on the entry, quite plush for this estate, rounded and caressing with a slight savory element from the Cabernets imparting more complexity on the finish. Maybe not the longest Saint-Émilion in terms of longevity but very delicious.

This 2015 Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot is a blend of 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Anticipated maturity: 2020 – 2040.

The 2009 Chateau Belair Monange wine is an extraordinary terroir, now exploited by Edouard Moueix, the son of Christian, seems to be coming to life in a dramatic fashion. Never a hedonistic wine, but very intellectual, the 2009 Chateau Belair Monange wine suggests a liqueur of crushed rocks intermixed with black currants and black cherries. Still somewhat closed, medium to full-bodied, and impressive rather than seductive, this is a structured wine that needs to be forgotten for at least a decade, and then drunk over the following 30+ years. If readers are looking for the quintessential example of a terroir-dominated wine, this is Lesson 101 in terroir.

The 2015 Chateau Bernateau wine has aromas of fresh raspberries, plum and blackberries on the nose. This Chateau Bernateau wine is beautiful full fruit, but approachable multi-layered texture and taste on the palate. This Saint-Emilion wine has a smooth and silky finish. On the palate this is full-bodied and beautifully polished with excellent depth and concentration. The Bernateau wine possesses an opulent core or ripe dark fruits which is lifted by a lovely underlying acidity, that drives it into the finish. The 2015 Chateau Bernateau is a total success in this 2015 vintage.

This 2015 Chateau Bernateau wine is an extremely well balanced red Bordeaux blend with Merlot 70%, Cab Franc 25% and Petit Verdot 5%.

The 2015 Chateau Bourgneuf wine is a plump, juicy Pomerol that will drink well upon release. This Chateau Bourgneuf wine is maintaining the success that this estate showed en primeur, and reflecting the positive changes made at the property under a new generation led by Frederic Vayron.

This 2015 Pomerol wine is featuring a medium garnet purple color and aromas of smoked meats, black truffles, tapenade and charcoal with a fruity core of black and red cherries, plum preserves and blueberry coulis plus a waft of aniseed. This Bordeaux wine is medium to full-bodied, delicately structured and with lively fruit expression. This 2015 Bourgneuf wine finishes on an earthy note.

The 2015 Chateau Bourgneuf wine is composed of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc.

95 points James Suckling
93 points Decanter
92 points Wine Spectator

A rich, exotic wine, the 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown is simply stunning. This 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown wine has a fresh, perfumed bouquet of raspberry, wild strawberry and cedar aromas that feel very focused and cohesive. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit and gentle grip, and quite saline in the mouth, leading into a spicy, vivacious. There is breeding interwoven into this Margaux, palpable sophistication, and it finishes with panache, fanning out with lightly spiced red and black fruit. The 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown wine is quite concentrated and extracted in style, and yet all the elements are wonderfully fused together. This impressed in barrel just as it does here. Highly recommended. Best from 2022 through 2035.

96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Decanter
94 points James Suckling

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine has a deep garnet-purple in color. This Cos d’Estournel wine offers up black currants, spice cake, warm cherries and plum preserves with touches of chargrill and forest floor. This 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is medium-bodied and very firm with ripe, grainy tannins, it has a good core of earthy fruit, finishing with loads of layers and freshness.

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is backward and broody on the nose, just like the Pagodes de Cos, but it unfurls nicely in the glass to reveal intense blackberry, graphite and light tobacco aromas. The oak is nicely integrated here. This 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is medium-bodied with impressive depth, well-judged acidity and plenty of tobacco-infused black fruit. This is a fine Cos d’Estournel wine that should give 20 to 25 years of drinking pleasure.
Anticipated maturity: 2020 – 2040.

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is composed of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23.5% Merlot and 1.5% Cabernet Franc.

98 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Decanter

The 2015 Chateau Croizet Bages wine has a bouquet of plums, cassis, earth and tobacco. This Chateau Croizet Bages wine has a medium-bodied with better weight and fruit concentration. The oak is neatly integrated and there is an attractive spicy edge on the finish. This Bordeaux wine is a vibrant and pure Pauillac exhibiting dark fruits, graphite and a touch of spice on the nose and attractive fruit expression on the palate.

The 2015 is the best vintage of Chateau Croizet Bages. Great value for its quality.

Chateau Croizet Bages is a wine estate located on the Left Bank in Pauillac, rated a fifth growth in the 1855 Classification of Médoc and Graves. Its grand vin is based on the classic Bordeaux blend, with Cabernet Sauvignon in the starring role.

90 points Wine Enthusiast

The 2015 D’Issan is a total knock-out wine. Spectacularly ripe and intense, the 2015 exudes richness in all of its dimensions. This red wine has a super-ripe dark plum, lavender, spice, savory herbs, iron, smoke and new leather add myriad shades of nuance to this super-ripe, decidedly hedonistic Margaux. A powerful, dense wine, the 2015 is going to need a number of years before it is close to being ready to drink. I was quite impressed with d’Issan both times I tasted it. The 2015 has really come along nicely. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon and 35% Merlot, aged in 50% new oak. It is a fine Chateau D’Issan that shows great classicism. This 2015 Chateau D’Issan has a great ageing potential.

96 points James Suckling
95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points Decanter