Margaux · vintage 2015
Why this vintage
- 95/100 from James Sucklingand 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2015 vintage in MargauxA hot summer tempered by August rains gave expansive wines, with rounded tannins and generous fruit.
Critic scores
- James Suckling95
- Vinous95
- Wine Enthusiast94
- Wine Advocate93
The 2015 vintage in Margaux
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 Margaux. 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.
Figures from the 2015 sheet
- 125,000 bottlesProduction
Label
Winemaking
Traditional: 21 days in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks
Ageing
18 months in oak stave barrels (50% new); fining with egg white
Terroir
Château d’Issan has two distinctive features: the vines are almost entirely enclosed by walls and, unlike its neighbours, the estate grows no Cabernet Franc. The soils form a fine terroir of Günzian gravels and clay-limestone land.
An offer on Château d'Issan 2015
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Texts and documents 2015
The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.
Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. 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.