Bordeaux 2015 from bottle: mainly classified Medocs

[Mike_Grammer]

Wonderful effort, as always, Panos. Will be very helpful to me in deciding if and what I might buy from this vintage (which will be very selective for me). Appreciate the care and time you put into your thoughts.

With my best regards,

Mike

[Subu_Ramachandran]

Great notes Panos…glad to note Margaux area is showing well in 2015…picked up some futures last year!

[Arv_R]

@Pat Martin

@Robert Alfert

That’s funny Siran is a sentimental favorite of yours, as it is mine as well. Was so staunchly old school, have not tried any recent vintages. I had a wonderful tour back in 1996, tasting through some very mature vintages. I suspect some critics called it “charmless”.

That’s funny, in my experience most Bordeaux fans never have even heard of Siran. I visited the Chateau in 1994 on my first trip Bordeaux. We didn’t know Siran then, but we knew we liked the Margaux appellation and we called around to various Chateau in Margaux that would let undergrads show up without an appointment and Siran invited us in. I really liked the wines and we all splurged to share a case of the 1989 (which was like $12/bottle), which drank so well even in the mid-1990s.

I own a few bottles of the 2000 and 2005 but I haven’t tried them yet given the old school tannin this one can display.

FWIW, Neal Martin gave the 2015 Siran 92-94 pts, quite impressive for this estate.

Sometime in the last year or so Neil Martin published a long form exposition on the Siran estate history, and conducted a vertical. There was some weird backstory, and he suggested the wines are very credible now. I’ve never seen nor tried one though.