The same blend as the Blanc but including 5% red wine from their La Côte aux Enfants parcel, the 2015 Champagne La Grande Année Brut Rosé is a lovely wine on the nose, and I think I might like it more than the Blanc in...

The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Aida Estate is packed with super-ripe dark cherry, bittersweet chocolate, new leather, licorice, cloves and gravel. This potent, brooding Cabernet Sauvignon is dialed up to the maximum. All...

The 2015 Moulin a Vent la Roche contains 40% whole bunch fruit and is aged in 30% new oak. It comes from 70-year-old vines cropped at 24 hectoliters per hectare. This is much more controlled and sophisticated on the nose...

Peony and violet floral notes, raspberry and redcurrant fruits, tannins a little austere right now but this has great structure and depth to the flavours. Of the recent vintages, I recommend the 2014 for the next few...

The nose offers appealing sour cherry. Direct, rich and intense, with excellent texture and structure. Intense ripeness and refined fruitiness. Fine tannins and nice length. Chewy but balanced. (Drink between 2024-2036)

Quite tight at the moment and rather unyielding, clearly there is good concentration of those ripe, juicy, fat, sweet plums and chocolate, but it is going to require at least another 5-7 years to open and flesh...

Even richer wine than the 2016 riesling Smaragd from the great Klaus site. Sleek for 14% alcohol with enormous depth and concentration, but also a minty note and great candied lemon and mineral freshness at the long...

The 2015 Meursault Village is showing very well, unfurling in the glass with notes of crisp yellow orchard fruit, Anjou pear, white flowers, honeycomb and hazelnut cream. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied...

A firmness and focus to this second wine with plum, chocolate and walnut character. Full to medium body, pretty tannins and a long and fresh finish. A beauty. Second wine from Nenin.

The 2015 Les Forts de Latour has a lovely nose, with very pure black cherry, raspberry, violet and light cassis scents unfolding with every swirl. The palate is medium-bodied with plush tannins and a velvety smooth...

This takes a graceful tack, offering supple, cedar-lined notes of gently mulled red currant and black cherry fruit that glide through the tobacco-, mint-, licorice- and sandalwood-accented finish. Offering charm rather...

Cedary spices mix with shavings of dark chocolate and crushed black raspberries as the 2015 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico entices from the glass. Cool-toned and crisp, it offers silken textures offset by depths of...

Bright and engaging, with light savory and thyme accents out front, followed by light-bodied but persistent and mouthwatering chalk, damson plum and olive notes. Offers a long, sleek finish.

The perfumes of this wine have developed well and the taste gives richness, solid black fruits and acidity. Tannins are still there, promising further aging. Drink from 2021. — Roger Voss

Still marketed as "Touraine AC" because the Chinon appellation has been extended only since the 2016 vintage, the 2015 Touraine Clos de la Plante Martin offers an intense yet pure and chalky bouquet with a pretty...

The 2015 L'Amiral is an impressive, savory, refined Cabernet Franc that is almost Bordeaux-like in its classicism. This cuvée is only made in what the producer deems to be an exceptional year, and then aged in barrel for...

The 2015 Cos Estournel remains broody on the nose, with blackberry and pencil shavings as I observed several years ago. Indeed, this does not appear to have moved on much in the interim. The palate is medium-bodied with...

As is so often the case chez Mugneret, the 2015 Vignes Rondes is more structured and reserved in personality than the Chaignots. The bouquet is deep and very elegant this year, offering up a youthful blend of red and...

Brilliant violet color. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes red/blue fruit liqueur, candied flowers and Asian spices, along with a smoky mineral overtone. Impressively concentrated yet lively on the palate, offering...

This is solid, with brambly grip running in lockstep with a solid core of plum and black currant preserve flavors. Shows ample energy through the finish, where alder and tobacco notes check in. Not as dense as the top...

Incorporating some 16% of lieu-dit Caurés to temper the richness of Montaigu in sunny vintages, Guiborat's 2015 Extra-Brut De Caurés à Montaigu offers up aromas of crisp green apple, white flowers, citrus oil, freshly...

The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Rubicon is in great shape today. Scorched earth, tobacco, incense, worn-in leather and menthol are nicely shaped by the passage of time. The 2015 is on the riper side, but all the elements are...

The 2015 La Lagune has never really shown as well as it might. However, this bottle, poured blind, suggests that this has suddenly "awoken". It has a well-defined, estuarine-tinged bouquet with blackberry, wild hedgerow...

(13.5% alcohol; from very old vines in true Charmes that typically produce small, concentrated grapes, according to Nadine Gublin): Deep, bright ruby-red. Slightly high-toned aromas of black cherry, licorice and minerals...