Hosanna 2015

The 2015 Hosanna has a generous bouquet of brambly red fruit, rose petal and hints of fresh fig, all well defined with a ferrous note emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, a fine bead of acidity, rounded and velvety smooth. A plush, sensual finish is less mineral driven than I noticed before. This is an excellent Hosanna. I expect that score to go up with bottle age. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.

This has the wow factor; it's very impressive. The nose is saturated with dark, rich plums and wet-earth aromas, not to mention the roasted-coffee and crushed-violet undertones. The palate has polished, lustrous appeal, and dark plums and ripe blueberry flavors abound. Long, deep-set tannins with incredible depth. This has x-factor depth and elegance. Best from 2025.

Tasted blind. Mid crimson. Unusual top note of green apples. Very rich and sweet and flattering on the palate, though the tannins are a bit rustic. Not the most refreshing…
Drink 2023-2030

This small (4.5 hectare) vineyard was formed from the best vines of the former Chateau Certan Giraud. There is 70% Merlot here and 30% Cabernet Franc and the wine tends to be more powerful and muscular than most of the other JP Moueix Pomerols. The blend is 82% Merlot with 18% Cabernet Franc. Deep ruby colour, with a summer pudding nose of red and blue fruits and a hint of smoky brioche and clove. The palate is sumptuous, precise and forward with powerful red fruits at the core. This is fully ripe but finds lifting acidty and soft tannins to give both tension and balance. This is a complex, long and deft wine.

A monumental wine is the 2015 Hosanna and it’s 82% Merlot and 18% Cabernet Franc raised in (I suspect) all new barrels that’s from a single parcel of older vines. One of those rare wines to pair incredible opulence with off the charts elegance and purity, it’s up with the top handful of wines in this vintage and readers should do whatever they can to taste this beauty. Loaded with notions of blackcurrants, black raspberries, toasty oak, truffles, graphite, and spice-box, it hits the palate with full-bodied richness, an ethereal, seamless texture, perfect balance, and a huge finish. It’s unquestionably one of the superstars in the vintage and should last for 25-30 years. Hats off to the Moueix team! 2020 - 2050

The fruit on the nose is ripe and sweet the start of the palate is rich the mid palate supple with ripe black plum. There is freshness under the sweet fruit brighter at the back with the richness giving depth on the finish. 2025-36

One of the few Moueix wines that I (slightly) preferred in 2014, this may just need more time.
Structured and firm with lots of smoky oak, firmish tannins and dark, plummy concentration
supported by the graphite freshness of the Cabernet Franc. Drink: 2022-35

A structured, powerful wine which doesn’t hold back on the oak, Hosanna is a big-boned beast in 2015 and it will require
10-15 years for this wine to mellow. The fruit is delectable but it is cloaked in raw tannin and no matter how much I
tried to aerate the wine in my glass it stubbornly held onto its austere finish. Given time this will be a temptress but it is
awkward and abrupt right now.