Château Rauzan-Ségla Margaux 2. Cru Classé 2015 i trækasse

“98 points. It’s a big, rich, incredibly sexy wine.” – Jeb Dunnuck
“98 points. remains with you for at least 50 seconds!” – Jeff Leve
 

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Anmeldelser af Château Rauzan-Ségla Margaux 2. Cru Classé 2015

98/100 Jeb Dunnuck
”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

98/100 Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
“Incredibly polished and silky on the palate, the wine is deep, concentrated, luscious and sexy. Even though this is just a baby in terms of its evolution, the wine already offers flowers, spice box, licorice and sweet blackberry aromas. Full bodied, with the tanninsnd structure to age for decades, the wine offers purity of fruit, energy and complexity. The finish remains with you for at least 50 seconds! This could be the best wine the estate has ever produced.”

97/100 Robert Parker
“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.”

97/100 James Suckling
“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.

95-97/100 Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
“Florals, licorice, tobacco, truffle, violets and ripe, sweet, fruits create the complex perfume. Soft, rich and polished, this wine feels like silk and velvet on the palate. Weight and density provide you with a concentration of raw materials while the finesse-styled finish lingers and expands. From a blend of 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the wine reached 14.% alcohol with a pH of 3.7. Aging in 65% new, French oak barrels for 18 months before bottling, it represents 45% of the production. The harvest took place from September 10 to October 9. This is the debut vintage for the new director Nicolas Audebert. Bravo for your first effort!.”

96/100 Vinous
”The 2015 Rauzan-Ségla is every bit as impressive as it was from barrel. Rich, sumptuous and super-intense, the 2015 envelops the palate. Super-ripe dark cherry, plum, licorice, leather, tobacco and menthol are all given an extra kick of richness in a dramatic, exceptionally beautiful Rauzan-Ségla that clearly swings for the fences. Although quite concentrated and sumptuous, the 2015 also retains considerable nuance. Readers lucky enough to own the 2015 can look forward to several decades of fine drinking. This is terrific effort from estate manager Nicolas Audebert, who wasted no time in sending a strong message about his ambitions in his first full-time vintage at Rauzan-Ségla. The 2015 is 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc.”

Om Château Rauzan-Ségla

Wertheimer-familien bag House of Chanel var egentlig ude efter en 1. Cru Classé, men måtte i 1994 ”nøjes” med 2. Cru Rauzan-Ségla.

Som ny daglig leder snuppede man John Kolasa fra selveste Ch. Latour! Siden fulgte mangfoldige forbedringer:  omplantning af underpræsterende Cabernet til Merlot; nyt dræningsanlæg; øget beplantningstæthed (10.000 planter pr. hektar); omfattende restaurering af slot og produktionsfaciliteter.

Da John Kolasa i 2015 gik på pension, fandt Chanel-huset sin erstatning hos rivalen Louis Vuitton Moët Hennesy. Nicolas Audebert har tidligere lavet vin for LVMHs Cheval des Andes i Mendoza, Argentina.

At dømme efter ratings er 2016 bestemt ikke noget tilbageskridt.