Tasted at the Cru Bourgeois annual tasting, the 2015 La Mouline offers light brambly red fruit on the nose, slightly earthy and needing more clarity to come through. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy red fruit, light acidity and an easy-going, very approachable finish. Enjoy this over the next five or six years. Tasted September 2017.

The Chateau La Mouline 2014 has an airy bouquet with light red cherry and crushed strawberry scents gently wafting from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly raw tannin. There is some light, tobacco-stained black fruit here, but if feels a little truncated on the finish. Hopefully it will fill out by the time of bottling.

A stylish effort in this vintage, La Mouline (a vineyard sandwiched between the appellations of Margaux and St.-Julien) has produced an attractive, medium-bodied wine with a dark ruby/plum color, notes of sweet blackcurrant, cherry, spice, and earth, and excellent concentration. Drink it over the next 7-10 years. A sleeper of the vintage.

Also recommended, but no tasting note given.