Bordeaux 2015 Primeurs: Castillon & Co. Tasting Notes
Looking beyond the wines of Denis Durantou, there are some other potentially excellent wines waiting to be discovered in these more peripheral corners of the right bank. Some of these come from well-known names, the first that springs to mind being Château La Vieille Cure, an old favourite of mine which I have been writing about for years, having profiled this domaine back in the very early days of Winedoctor. The 2015 vintage has a dark and perfumed character, with lovely freshness to the fruit, and was certainly the most convincing wine from Fronsac I tasted during the primeurs, although the wine of Château de La Dauphine certainly also has promise.
Coming back to Castillon, a region I discovered more recently than Fronsac, there are other good wines here beyond Château Montlandrie. Some of the Mitjavile magic has rubbed off on L’Aurage, Stephan von Neipperg has produced a very successful wine at Château d’Aiguilhe, and the less well-known Château Alcée, made by Nicolas Thienpont, should also not be overlooked. The same goes for his wines from Francs Côtes de Bordeaux, in red at least, while the whites show a little too much soft acidity for me to get too excited over them. Even the wine of Château Cap de Faugères, a modern Rolland-style wine from one of Silvio Denz’s three ‘Faugères’ estates, showed pretty well. The 2015 from Château d’Arce, in Lalande-de-Pomerol, made by Hélène Garcin-Lévêque at Poesia, is also worth a look.
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