2015 Red Wine from France

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: Attractive ripe dark berries and some darker chocolate, no to mention sweet earth and violets. The palate has impressive density and depth, not to mention great length and weight. Mulberry and dark-cherry flavors hold...

jebdunnuck.com, 93 points: The 2015 La Fleur De Bouard is an awesome wine to seek out. Mostly Merlot, it offers a terrific bouquet of cassis and black cherries intermixed with lots of tobacco leaf and lead pencil notes. It’s medium to full-bodied...

Decanter, 96 points: The Bressandes takes things up a notch, with a fabulous nose of dark fruit, rich soil, fresh mushroom and woodsmoke. The palate is deep and full-bodied with incredible structual amplitude, endowed with the richness of the...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Now that it has been in bottle a while, the 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Reservee is looking even better than I projected based on last year's prebottling sample. It's all violets, cherries, subtle allspice and clove...

Wine Enthusiast, 93 points: A closed nose on this wine allows glimpses of red cherry slightly colored with a woodland note. A picture of vivid, understated juiciness, the palate is harmonious and elegant, its firm web of tannin holding everything...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: A slightly ethereal hay-flower lift on the nose of this wine suggests some evolution. Fresh and strikingly balanced, the palate has come together and reverberates with tart, red-cherry fruit and an edge of earth and...

Wine Enthusiast, 93 points: Subtle but lifted cherry notes can just be made out on the nose of this wine. More air reveals a smoky overtone that also is present on the elegant body. Concentrated red and Morello cherry juiciness emanates from a...

Wine Enthusiast, 97 points: From its privileged position on the sweep of vines leading up to the medieveal city of Saint-Émilion, this estate has made an impressive wine in this vintage. It is rich and concentrated both in its structure and its...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: This is sensational, characterized by such purity and beauty and with aromas of blackberries, dark chocolate, walnuts, cedar and lavender. Full-bodied, tight and focused — in part thanks to sensational tannin tension that...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Eighteen months in new French oak barrels has given the 2015 Côtes du Roussillon Villages le Clos des Fées a certain tightness and discipline lacking in the Vieilles Vignes bottling. There's still massive fruit and buried...

jamessuckling.com, 93 points: Attractive red berries and light licorice notes with a lick of iodine lead to a palate that has plenty of red-fruit and -licorice flavors. Smoothly groomed tannins and a fresh cherry-pip finish. Try from 2020.

Wine Enthusiast, 96 points: This is a powerful wine, with wood aging that adds richness to the dense tannins. Some tough extraction has not detracted from the ripe fruit or structure and will go as the wine matures. It should be ready to drink from...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: This rich, red-fruit-flavored wine comes from one of the top vineyards in the Côte de Beaune. It is a ripe wine, layered with tannins and with rich berries. With acidity and the structure to sustain it, the wine has good...