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9.6

The 2020 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has a fragrant, perfumed and classier bouquet than Hudelot-Baillet's Bonnes-Mares: well-defined with clever use of stems. Wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-boned tannins. Lovely symmetry and poise build towards a linear yet intense finish. It will require 4-5 years to subsume the oak, but there is great potential, and it has a sense of statesmanlike class. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting. (Neal Martin, Vinous, October 2024)
— 13 days ago

Byron Hewett

9.2

Very nice, but not in the same league as the other wines in this tasting. — 5 months ago

Conrad Green

9.4

Quite dense. A brooding nose with dark plum, pepper, bloodiness. Very calm and intense. Precise. Quite quiet. Lovely and mellow on the palate. — 8 months ago

with Paul

GaryWEdwards

9.4

Nice long elegant finish with beautiful nose of blueberry thing going on. Has turned into a classy wine of nice structure — 24 days ago

jesus g

Hospitality Schramsberg Vineyards

9.7

06 wasn’t great, but the 01 was absolutely stunning — 3 months ago

Ron Siegel

9.5

Loved this — 8 months ago

Gilbert Van Hassel

9.6

Unfortunately the last bottle in my cellar. — 9 months ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.5

A fantastic ‘11! There’s obvious terroir signature, and the richness and power of the Bonnes Mares site definitely elevates the vintage. It gains detail and definition with air and the ‘11 greenness dissipates completely after a 2 hour decant, allowing the complexity of its alluring wildness and layers of spiced dark fruit, game, black tea and wilted violets to shine through. The palate shows unusual density for the vintage, with a silky texture, combining power and finesse, concluding with a pure, focused, saline-mineral inflicted finale. Terrific showing for a vintage I generally don’t covet for red burg. The best I’ve experienced along with Fourrier and Mugneret Gibourg. — 3 months ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.4

Aledelavega y sergio mares — 8 months ago

Severn Goodwin

9.3

Confrérie Des Chevaliers du Tastevin Sous-Commanderie d'Albany, Pauleé Dinner; 2 February 2024 at Lake Ridge Restaurant, Round Lake, NY

Red, companion WOTN for me, so lively! — 9 months ago