2015 Château Rollan de By

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  1/12/2022 - CarpeDiem! Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Expressive, fresh nose of mature cherries and roasted coffee. Well structured and despite its young age already harmonic, with ample ripe cherries, chocolate, cedar and roast aromas. Give this youngster another 5 years to fully develop and it will be a delight.

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  11/14/2021 - dragan o wrote: 91 Points

  After two year much impressive

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  4/22/2021 - Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Quite a surprise. With 70% Merlot, I was expecting the high octane, rather oaky stuff I have got used to from this wine - well, it was totally different. The nose gave the game away - herbs, fresh notes of blackcurrant and blackberry, black cherries, a touch of cigar box (hang on, I thought, where's the toasty oak and mocha?). The attack was similarly disconcerting, very cool, fresh and restrained - crisp notes of blackcurrant and black cherry. There was a rising middle section, especially the second evening, with more intense, ripe flavours of blackberry and plum, but firmly framed by a tannic structure that keeps it all in check. Again, one for the long haul, but very impressive at this stage, the best Rollan de By I have tasted since the 2000, infinitely better than the 05, 08, 09, 10 and 11.

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  1/10/2021 - maxima wrote: 88 Points

  Simple et un brin vert.
  De la terre, des cerises, du tabac et
  du sous-bois. Les Tannins sont
  charnus et la finale assez longue
  a une légère amertume.
  Bien.

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  9/29/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 89 Points

  Ready to drink, this forward, round, supple, soft, dark red berry-filled wine comes with a liberal blast of oak, licorice, smoke and chocolate. It is a nice, crowd-pleasing wine that is already easy to drink.

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