81% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc

Neal Martin: 94+, James Suckling: 98

Neal Martin: The 2015 La Conseillante has a refined bouquet with red currant, wild strawberry and rose petal aromas, beautifully defined and unfurling in the glass. A hint of black truffle emerges with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple black cherry fruit, cassis and boysenberry. Quite "slick" toward the finish suggesting a little more extraction than its peers that smothers the mineralite I noted in the vertical last spring. But it is supremely well balanced and it should mature with style.