Saint-Emilion by Chateau Matignon 2015

"The 2015 vintage of Château Matignon is similarly ripe to the 2016, coming in listed at the same 13.5 percent octane in this warm summer. The wine is lovely on both the nose and palate, with the bouquet offering up a very expressive blend of black cherries, baked dark berries, tobacco leaf, cigar ash, a touch of menthol, dark soil tones and just a hint of oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nicely plush at the core, with good focus and grip, ripe, buried tannins and a long, complex finish... I love how the cabernet franc component in the blend here is in the ascendency at bit more than in the 2016 version, which is highly attractive to this palate!"