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Conseillante 2015

Pomerol

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Tasting Notes

La Conseillante has a new winemaker this year with Marielle Cazaux now at the helm but La Conseillante still displays its signature of floral high notes with vivid blueberry, black berries and violets. A deep core of fruit, polished and creamy, with no hard edges, velvet tannin and a sense of balance and harmony. 81% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc. La Conseillante is a beauty this year.

Score: 96 - 98 Albany Vintners, - Date: 27 April 2016

This is the most powerful La Conseillante I have tasted with lots of muscle and intensity. Full and savory. Chewy. Agile and formed. Beautiful ripe fruit in the center palate. This is a little pushed to the limit like the great Conseillants of the 1960s and 1970s.

Score: 96 - 97 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Date: 01 April 2016

81% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc. Picked 21 September - 7 October. 70% new oak. Direct, savoury nose. New winemaker wants to keep the aromas of Conseillante but they want to add a little more grip. Sweet and fresh with some tea leaf aromas. The oak tannins are just perceptible but it should all calm down. Definitely quite grippy now! 14.5%

Score: 17 - 18 Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2026-2040 Date: 01 April 2016

The 2015 La Conseillante, a blend of 81% Merlot and 19% Cabernet Franc, is extraordinarily pure and elegant on the nose. Here, I find a little more red fruit than black fruit, extremely elegant and articulating the terroir with great clarity. At first, wild strawberry and cranberry, then crushed stone, a touch of black truffle and tobacco. The palate is medium-bodied, fresh and elegant with fine tannin on the entry. This is one of the most approachable La Conseillante wines that I have tasted in barrel, the acidity very well judged, "classic" in style, good backbone here with a structured finish. It does not quite possess the bravura of the 2010 La Conseillante and I would agree with winemaker Marielle Cazaux that it bears more semblances to the 2005 La Conseillante at this stage, and even bore common traits with its neighbour, Vieux Château Certan. This is an intellectual and to put it prosaically, "delicious" La Conseillante.

Score: 95 - 97 Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2021-2045 Date: 01 April 2016

A total knockout, the 2015 La Conseillante possesses stunning depth, nuance and complexity. Soaring aromatics meld into a core of dark-fleshed stone fruits, with hints of mocha, crème de cassis, menthol, violets and dark spices that develop in the glass. The 2015 is not an obvious wine, but it is exceptionally beautiful. The blend is 81% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc. Don’t' miss it.

Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Date: 01 April 2016

Lush notes of dark fig, boysenberry and blackberry pâte de fruit glide over ample but velvety tannins, with suave black tea and ganache accents. This is long and should be gorgeous when finished.

Score: 93 - 96 James Molesworth, Wine Spectator Date: 01 April 2016