2015 Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Tasted blind. Dark crimson. Sweet fruit and some spice. Muted and with excellent unexaggerated fruit and quite a bit of tannin but the fruit will stand up to it, I suspect. Some slight stalkiness.Drink 2025-2040jancis_robinson_mw MW, JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2019)

Big, burly black fruit with subtle spice and angular tannins.Drink 2022-2033Decanter (Mar 2020)

One of the undisputed stars of the vintage, the 2015 Beauséjour Héritiers Duffau-Lagarrosse is dark, brooding and explosive to its core. The essence of super-ripe dark cherry, plum, graphite, crushed rocks, gravel, smoke and incense infuses a dramatic, sweeping Saint-Émilion endowed with superb power and intensity. Sumptuous, spectacularly rich and also massively structured, the 2015 is going to need at least a decade to come into its own. Those lucky enough to find it are in for a treat, as the 2015 is a total stunner. Nicolas Thienpont and his team hit a number of home runs in 2015, including at Beauséjour Héritiers Duffau-Lagarrosse, where both wines are simply great. Tasted two times with consistent notes.Drink 2025-2055antonio_galloni, Vinous.com (Feb 2018)

Very dark crimson. Brooding and vibrant on the nose. Sweet and fully ripe - almost Pomerol-like in its intensity. Big and bold. Even a bit brutal. Drink 2025-2038 jancis_robinson_mw MW - JancisRobinson.com - Apr 2016

The 2015 Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse) is a blend of 90% Merlot picked between 25 September and 5 October, 10% Cabernet Franc picked on 5 and 12 October. It was cropped at 34 hl/ha. It has a very intense, quite opulent bouquet, just like the 2015 Pavie-Macquin from barrel, with fig-tinged red cherry fruit, hints of kirsch and glycerin. The palate likewise shows more refinement and class, the tannins fine and the acidity well judged. It has a fresh finish, though it just needs to muster a touch more tension and sense of energy right on the finish. Let's see what happens during its levage, because it has the materials to turn into a very fine Saint Emilion.Neil Martin - 28/04/2016

I don’t know what to say here other than it’s better than any BDL I drank since 1989 including the 1990. There’s a transparency and beauty like a rainbow. Full body, extremely long and bright. Super fine tannins. Pure fruit. james_suckling - jamessuckling_com - Apr 2016