The 2015 Bordeaux Vintage Is Superb. Here’s the Best and Worst of It
From an “almost perfect” Château Pétrus to a “lush, expansive” Château Margaux, Elin McCoy has tasted all of the major 2015s from France’s legendary wine region.
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Last week in Bordeaux, with skies alternating between rain and sun, I sipped and savored about 450 barrel samples to see just how good the wines from the 2015 vintage are. Will they be worth buying as futures?
There’d been only modest buzz about the 2015s, a welcome departure from years past, when winemakers would regularly trumpet that they were sitting on a “vintage of the century.”