Chateau Fleur Cardinale 2015
Product details
| Management number | 253495919 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$44.45 | Model Number | 253495919 | ||
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A Grand Cru Classe from Saint-Emilion showcasing concentrated black fruit, floral aromas, refined spice, and silky tannins. Full-bodied and beautifully structured, the palate combines richness with freshness, leading to a long, harmonious finish and outstanding ageing potential.
Food Pairing: Pairs best with beef tenderloin, roast lamb, duck breast, venison, wild mushrooms, and aged hard cheeses.
95 Points - James Suckling
Super rich baking spices across ripe dark plums in a very suave and attractively styled nose. The palate has incredible depth and succulently seductive, fleshy plum flavors. Wow. Try from 2022.
94 Points - Jeb Dunnuck
The 2015 Château Fleur Cardinale is beauty in the vintage and checks in as a blend of 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon brought up all in new oak. Offering sensational notes of black cherries and currant fruits, toasty oak, graphite, and licorice, it's medium to full-bodied, concentrated, and gorgeously pure and elegant on the palate. It has fine tannin emerging on the finish and is made in a straight, structured, classic style. Give bottles a year to two and it should drink beautifully over the following 15+. I was able to taste this wine three separate times and, surprisingly, it showed best from a bottle purchased here in the US. It has the purity of fruit that's the hallmark of the vintage and is a gem readers should seek out. This wine is an exclusive of American Jeffrey Davies.
93 Points - Wine Spectator
Dark fig and boysenberry confiture flavors run from start to finish here, with a graphite spine embedded along the way. Not shy, but has the cut to pull it off. Best from 2022 through 2032.
92 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Fleur Cardinale is a blend of 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon matured in 100% new oak barrels for 13 months. Deep garnet-purple in color, it has a nose of fragrant violets, cedar chest and rose hips over a core of chocolate-covered cherries, plum preserves and blueberry pie. The medium to full-bodied palate is rich and plush with plenty of layers and great length.
91 Points - Decanter
One of the latest to harvest in St-Emilion. Rich, plush and modern – oozes fruit. Tannins are ripe and firm with chocolate notes from the oak. Successful in that seductive, come-hither style. Barrel Sample.
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