November 19, 2025
Serious Bordeaux Value: 2015 Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre 2015 - a Bordeaux Bargain
97 Points - Jeb Dunnuck
“Chocolate covered dark fruits, damp earth, tobacco leaf, and lead pencil shaving-like notes emerge from this huge, concentrated beauty that has building tannin and a huge mid-palate. It’s an incredible wine that builds with time in the glass, has no hard edges and is going to 3-4 decades of life. Bravo!"
If you are looking for one of Saint Julien’s best kept secrets, Chateau Saint Pierre is it. The smallest of the appellation’s classed growths, this quiet overachiever consistently produces wines of depth, purity and true Left Bank structure. With gravel rich soils, old vine Cabernet and painstaking work under the Triaud family, Saint Pierre remains one of the Medoc’s most refined and undervalued estates.
Despite its long history, the estate’s modern era is surprisingly young. When Henri Martin painstakingly reassembled the vineyard in the early 1980s, he rebuilt Saint Pierre almost from scratch to match its 1855 footprint. Alongside its sister estate Gloria, quality has risen sharply over the past decade, and the 2015 vintage marked a real turning point in precision, definition and overall harmony.
The 2015 Saint Pierre stands as one of the great wines of the vintage, uniting depth, purity and superb ageing potential. Critics from Jeb Dunnuck to Jane Anson highlight its refined power, saturated black fruit, graphite, spice and beautifully shaped tannins. It is structured yet wonderfully graceful, a wine that has grown even more impressive with time in bottle and firmly confirms Saint Pierre’s ascent.
Neal Martin captured it perfectly when he wrote, “Utterly graceful… a convincing argument that Saint-Pierre is becoming one of the go to Saint Julien crus.”
If you are building a cellar with wines that will outperform their price for years to come, this comes highly recommended.
Saint-Pierre 2015
€43.50* In Bond per bottle
97 Points | Jeb Dunnuck
This 17-hectare estate has been rejuvenated by owner Jean-Louis Triaud and is certainly producing some of the top wines from the appellation today. I tasted the deep, inky-colored 2015 Château Saint-Pierre twice and it’s reminiscent of the 2010, only with more elegance. In 2015 the wine is a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc and it spent 14 months in 50% new and 50% once used barrels. Chocolate covered dark fruits, damp earth, tobacco leaf, and lead pencil shaving-like notes emerge from this huge, concentrated beauty that has building tannin and a huge mid-palate. It’s an incredible wine that builds with time in the glass, has no hard edges and is going to 3-4 decades of life. Bravo!
96 Points | Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux
The belief at the time that the 2014 was better than the 2015 in the northern Médoc is not being borne out with years in bottle (maybe Montrose!). The 2014 at Saint Pierre is excellent, but it's the 2015 that you want to go to if you're lookig for depth and future potential - this is loaded up with nuance and aromatic complexity. 2015 was the year where everything was new at Saint Pierre - newly renovated and expanded winery, more plot by plot vinification with tanks that range from 78hl to 135hl, with vertical press to replace pneumatic press, plus an expanded barrel cellar that allowed more than half of the press wine to be aged separately in barrel before being added to the blend. 50% new oak for ageing, harvest September 21 to October 7, Eric Boissenot consultant.
95 Points | Vinous - Neal Martin
The 2015 Saint-Pierre has a scintillating nose of brilliantly defined black fruit with superb mineralité. You can feel the energy coming from this bouquet. The medium-bodied palate is precise and pixelated, displaying fine-grained tannin and wonderful balance, leading to an exquisite, detailed, almost Margaux-like finish. Utterly graceful. This impressed me so much just after bottling, far more than in barrel, and assessed blind against its peers, it represents a convincing argument that Saint-Pierre is becoming one of the go-to Saint-Julien crus. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.
*Prices are accurate as of the blog publication date and may be subject to change.