Château Rauzan-Ségla - Margaux 2015 (750ml)
Price: $165.00
Sale Price: $130.00
| Producer | Château Rauzan-Ségla |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Margaux |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2015 |
| Sku | 1247934 |
| Size | 750ml |
Jeb Dunnuck: 98 Points
I underrated the 2015 Rauzan-Ségla on release. It?s a big rich incredibly sexy wine that?s certainly in the same ballpark as the 2016 (and 2018). Full-bodied ripe and concentrated it has a wonderfully expansive layered texture as well as an incredible sense of balance. Lots of cassis leafy herbs flowery incense and tobacco notes all emerge from this beauty which offers sweet tannins as well as a huge finish. This is magical stuff that?s going to keep for three decades or more. (Drink between 2019-2049) -Jeb Dunnuck
Wine Advocate: 97 Points
Deep garnet-purple in color the 2015 Rauzan-Ségla offers up an expressive nose of baked blackberries kirsch warm cassis and baked plums with hints of cigar box and tilled soil. Full-bodied rich and expansive in the mouth it has layer upon layer of bold red and black fruit preserves with earthy accents and a velvety texture finishing long and lively. The blend this year is 63% Cabernet Sauvignon 33% Merlot 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc harvested between September 10th and October 9th at an average yield of 40 hectoliters per hectare. It was aged for 18 months in French oak 65% new. The alcohol is 14% and the pH is 3.7.
James Suckling: 97 Points
Extremely aromatic with dried flowers perfumed and sandalwood and blackcurrants. Full body ultra-fine tannins a gorgeous core of ripe fruit and blackcurrants and blueberries. Racy and very long. So impressive. This needs four or five years to come around but already so fine.
vVinous: 96 Points
The 2015 Rauzan-Ségla picked September 10 to October 9 has a lucid deep colour. No great surprise that this performed exactly as it did a few weeks earlier. The bouquet bursts from the glass with fragrant red berry fruit crushed violets and iris almost penetrating in its intensity. You can feel the energy coiled up inside this nascent Margaux. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. This has such a backbone and structure layers of sappy black fruit suffused with crushed stone a seam of graphite that lends it a Pauillac-like allure. It feels very long and intense a Rauzan-Ségla destined to last decades rather than years. Tasted at the Rauzan-Ségla vertical at the château. -Neal Martin
Wine Enthusiast: 96 Points
Structure is the watchword for this wine. With dark tannins and concentration it obviously has long-term potential. At the same time the black-currant fruits are ripe and full bodied giving rich contrast to the tannins. These two elements will allow this wine to age. It will be ready to drink from 2025.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
Takes a very fresh approach with an open-knit feel to the mulled raspberry and red currant fruit. Pretty lilac incense and singed apple wood notes underscore the fruit while silky but persistent tannins carry the finish. Shows latent depth and precise balance so don't let this early charm fool you as this should unfurl beautifully in the cellar. Best from 2022 through 2040. 10000 cases made. ? JM
