{"id":25408,"date":"2016-06-16T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T10:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25408"},"modified":"2016-06-16T11:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T10:41:29","slug":"2015-bordeaux-mouton-ducru-beaucaillou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/2015-bordeaux-mouton-ducru-beaucaillou\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Bordeaux &#8211; Mouton &#038; Ducru Beaucaillou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25416\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Chateau-Ducru-Beaucaillou-3.jpg\" alt=\"Chateau-Ducru-Beaucaillou-(3)\" width=\"799\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning sees the releases of two of the M\u00e9doc greats, in the shape of Mouton Rothschild and Ducru Beaucaillou.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2015-CHATEAU-MOUTON-ROTHSCHILD-1er-Cru-Classe-Pauillac-23393-00.html?category=261\">2015\u00a0CH\u00c2TEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #444444;\">\u00a0(\u00a32130 per six bottles)<\/span> is highly-rated, as one might expect, with <strong>19<\/strong> from Jancis Robinson &#8216;<em>Very fine. Very exciting<\/em>&#8216;, and <strong>97-99<\/strong> from Neal Martin, who says that it is<em> &#8216;not a million miles away from say, the 1986 or 2010&#8217;<\/em>, and <em>&#8216;Expect this to settle at the top of my banded score once in bottle&#8217;.<\/em> Very limited volumes. 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