Saint-Julien · vintage 2015
Why this vintage
- 95/100 from Vinousand 4 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2015 vintage in Saint-JulienA hot summer tempered by August rains gave expansive wines, with rounded tannins and generous fruit.
Critic scores
- Vinous95
- Wine Enthusiast95
- Decanter94
- Wine Spectator94
- Wine Advocate90
The 2015 vintage in Saint-Julien
Vintage benchmark: 93/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A hot summer tempered by August rains gave expansive wines, with rounded tannins and generous fruit.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Julien. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
Les amateurs de vins jeunes, sur le fruit, pourront commencer à l’apprécier à partir de 2022.
Les vins gagneront encore en complexité si vous les attendez quelques années de plus. Ils sont promis à une vie de plusieurs décennies.
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Blend of the 2015 vintage
- 65 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 26 % Merlot
- 5 % Petit verdot
- 4 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2015 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 70 % cabernet sauvignon, 22 % merlot, 4 % petit verdot, 4 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2015 sheet
- 47 hl/haYield
- 35 yrsVine age
- 300,000 bottlesProduction
Ageing
Elevage en fûts de chêne français pendant 16 à 20 mois, avec 60 à 65 bois neufs.
Bois fins sélectionnés dans plusieurs forêts françaises pour la qualité de leurs arômes et de leurs tanins.
Faible chauffe du bois, respectant le caractère et le fruit des vins
Soutirage traditionnel des fûts, à l'abri de l'air.
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Terroir
The Branaire-Ducru vineyard is made up of several separate parcels, but with a terroir that remains homogeneous, on a very fine gravel rise at Beychevelle. The soil consists mainly of Quaternary gravelly-siliceous alluvium lying on a bed of alios (iron hardpan). The average age of the vineyard is 35 years. The blend at Château Branaire-Ducru is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and 4% each of Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Planting density is 8,000 vines/ha, for a yield of 40 hl/ha. Harvesting is by hand, with rigorous sorting in the vineyard and on sorting tables. Viticulture is conventional.
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Texts and documents 2015
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, labels. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.