91-93. Barrel Sample. Very juicy, this is a wine that has spice and open black currant flavors. It is full of fruit, backed by a small edge of tannin that gives the wine a really fresh fruitiness. The wine will develop quickly.

The 2015 La Dame de Montrose is deep garnet-purple in color with a nose of crushed black currants, warm black plums and black truffles with hints of underbrush, dried herbs and tar. Medium-bodied, firm and with a good core of earth-laced black fruits, it finishes with good length.

This has some good juicy intensity for the vintage, with plum, red currant and iron notes in unison and a finish filled with bright lilac and wet pebble details. Shows the taut edge of the vintage. A success. Best from 2019 through 2028.