Red Wine from Bonnes Mares

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 97 points: (ST94-97 points) Medium red. Aromas of smoky, earthy wild herbs, dried flowers and mocha, with fruit in the background today. Like liquid silk in the mouth, but energized by strong minerality and a peppery, herbal...

Burghound, 95 points: (BH92-95 points) Once again reduction prevents a proper evaluation of the aromas. Otherwise there is good freshness to the big, bold and overtly powerful broad-shouldered flavors that brim with both dry extract and...

Burghound, 94 points: Somewhat surprisingly this is less aromatically elegant though it’s just as complex with its more deeply pitched array of red and dark berries, earth and a hint of the sauvage. There is excellent volume and even better...

Burghound, 95 points: (BH92-95 points) Once again there is ample menthol character to the overtly spicy aromas of plum liqueur and violet. The impressively rich and broad-shouldered flavors also possess outstanding mid-palate concentration...

Burghound, 95 points: (BH93-95 points) This is very generously wooded, indeed so much so that either the sample was pulled from a new barrel or this isn't really consistent with the Drouhin style. While the wood is indeed quite pronounced it...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 92 points: Deep red-ruby. Wild blueberry, blackberry, licorice and herbs on the nose, with piquant accents of black pepper and violet building with air. Dense, juicy and youthfully imploded, with dark berry flavors complicated by...

Burghound, 94 points: (BH92-94 points) A deft application of wood frames restrained and distinctly cool aromas of various red berries, herbal tea, earth and a hint of smoked meat. The big, robust and imposing big-bodied flavors possess...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 95 points: (ST93-95 points) Medium red. Deep, brooding aromas of dark berries, brown spices and earth. Extremely introverted on the palate, with strong saline soil tones currently overshadowing the wine's fruit. This finished its...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 94 points: (AG92-94 points) The 2013 Bonnes Mares is a wine of amplitude, power and depth, all supported by serious tannins that suggest it is going to enjoy a very long life. Hints of lavender, pine and rose petal grace the...

Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, 95 points: From the south-east corner so all terres rouges. Pungent and concentrated. Lots of ‘minerality’. Masses of bumptious, almost gamey, fruit. Not massive in terms of alcohol but massive in terms of flavour. Great freshness –...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 95 points: (AG92-95 points) The 2013 Bonnes-Mares is remarkably suave and polished for this site, yet there is plenty of tightly-coiled power lying in reserve. Cool and intensely mineral, the 2013 boasts remarkable precision...