Wine Words & Video Tape

Wine, Words and Videotape

Fine Wine Review site

Bordeaux 2015 – Primeurs Day 1

Written by JW. Posted in Bordeaux

IMG_0821

It was an exciting start to the Bordeaux primeurs week over in St Emilion on Sunday. By the looks of things so far, St Emilion was as good a place as any to start tasting Bordeaux 2015. All vintages have their complexities but perhaps ‘15 seems to favour the right bank over the left in many respects at this early stage. At the Grand Cercle tastings held at Château Bellefont Belcier there were a number of wines from the various Côtes de Bordeaux appellations, especially the Côtes de Castillon, the Côtes de Francs and Fronsac that impressed. It looks like there are many excellent St Emilions to be had in 2015 too. The St Emilion Grand Crus and the St Emilion Grand Cru Classés showed very well indeed. Pomerol showed slightly less well but I will look in more detail at the appellation Wednesday. I also had the opportunity on Sunday to taste the range of right bank estates run by Nicolas Thienpont. They have produced a very exciting St Emilion at Château Berliquet, Château Larcis Ducasse, Château Pavie-Maquin and Château Beauséjour. These are a very harmonious set of wines indeed.

They have also produced good wine at their properties in the Côtes de Francs [Château Puygueraud and Château La Prade] and Château Alcée in Castillon. The white wine only Château Charmes Godard [Francs] is very impressive. I will write in more detail on these soon. Next up – day 2 in the Haut-Médoc

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Follow Us