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Saint Pierre 2015

RegionBordeaux
Subregion France > Bordeaux > Left Bank > St Julien
ColourRed
TypeStill
Grape VarietyCabernet Sauvignon/Merlot

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Tasting Notes

Vivid aromas with currants, mushrooms and dried flowers. Tar. Full-bodied, layered and polished. Show texture and richness. Juicy and lightly decadent. Drink in 2021.

92
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, February 2018

Medium to deep garnet colored, the 2015 Saint-Pierre is still very youthful and a tad closed on the nose, offering scents of cedar, redcurrant preserves, and ripe blackcurrants, plus hints of rose oil and cloves. The medium- bodied palate is taut with tight-knit black fruits, framed by firm tannins and bold freshness, finishing long and spicy.

95
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, The Wine Independent, November 2022

The belief at the time that the 2014 was better than the 2015 in the northern Médoc is not being borne out with years in bottle (maybe Montrose!). The 2014 at Saint Pierre is excellent, but it's the 2015 that you want to go to if you're lookig for depth and future potential - this is loaded up with nuance and aromatic complexity. 2015 was the year where everything was new at Saint Pierre - newly renovated and expanded winery, more plot by plot vinification with tanks that range from 78hl to 135hl, with vertical press to replace pneumatic press, plus an expanded barrel cellar that allowed more than half of the press wine to be aged separately in barrel before being added to the blend. 50% new oak for ageing, harvest September 21 to October 7, Eric Boissenot consultant.

95
Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com, February 2022

Tasted blind. Deep crimson. Minerally top notes on a nose of ripe black fruit – but much more classical than anything on the right bank. Very interesting wine with sweet biscuity charm. Long and fresh.
Drink 2023-2040

17-
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, February 2019

This 17-hectare estate has been rejuvenated by owner Jean-Louis Triaud and is certainly producing some of the top wines from the appellation today. I tasted the deep, inky-colored 2015 Château Saint-Pierre twice and it’s reminiscent of the 2010, only with more elegance. In 2015 the wine is a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc and it spent 14 months in 50% new and 50% once used barrels. Chocolate covered dark fruits, damp earth, tobacco leaf, and lead pencil shaving-like notes emerge from this huge, concentrated beauty that has building tannin and a huge mid-palate. It’s an incredible wine that builds with time in the glass, has no hard edges and is going to 3-4 decades of life. Bravo! 2018 - 2058

97
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com, November 2017

Bright and light the nose has a fragrant mix of bilberry and bramble the start of the palate has herbaceous freshness. There is a sweeter feel in the middle rich fruit with a fleshy ripeness giving depth on the finish.

87/89
Derek Smedley MW, DerekSmedleyMW.co.uk, April 2016

Like its stablemate, Château Gloria, St. Pierre has made a deliciously refined wine in 2015,
combining succulent black fruits with filigree tannins and supporting acidity. The oak, even
at this young age, feels like an integral part of the blend. Drink: 2024-32

94
Tim Atkin MW, timatkin.com, April 2016

With more obvious oak and tobacco on the nose this is a classic Saint-Pierre with armour and a helmet covering the more
tender elements underneath. It’s hard to see beneath this exterior and yet I sense very clean fruit with a cassis theme
and some red flashes built in to the core, too. Not a great Saint-Pierre, but a robust, upright wine with good grunt and
also power.

17.5+
Matthew Jukes, Matthew Jukes' Blog, April 2016
Read more tasting notes...

The 2015 Château Saint Pierre is a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc cropped at 48 hl/ha between 21 September and 7 October, matured in 50% new oak. It has a tightly wound bouquet with blackberry, raspberry and cedar, just a touch of pencil shaving surfacing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannin on the entry, quite tensile with a fine bead of acidity. This is not the most complex Saint-Pierre that I have encountered, although it possesses 2015's elegance and refinement. This will have more to give after bottling and may ultimately overtake Gloria. Tasted twice with consistent notes. Drink: 2020 - 2035.

91/93
Neal Martin, Wine Advocate (224), April 2016

Linear and lively with pretty blueberry, blackberry character. Polished tannins. Fine finish.

91/92
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, March 2016

The 2015 Saint-Pierre is a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc matured for 14 months in 50% new and 50% one-year-old barrels. Deep garnet-purple in color, it offers expressive blackberries, black currants and stewed black plums on the nose with suggestions of menthol, rare beef, black olives and tobacco. Medium-bodied and tautly structured with ripe, grainy tannins and a lively backbone with vibrant, muscular form, it finishes long and savory. 2019 - 2033

91+
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (Interim Fe), February 2018

Bright pinkish crimson. Very fragrant and lifted. A little sweet and then jagged. Not quite as refined as the Ch Gloria but a solid effort and very much a 2015. Inky finish.
Drink 2024-2036

16.5
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, November 2017

Blackish crimson. Not the ripest on the nose. A little too austere? Ticks boxes rather the tugs at heart strings. A little low key.
Drink 2024-2038

16
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, April 2016
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