2002 Red Wine

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 90 points: A beautiful success for a right bank 2002, the dedication and perfectionism of the Perses is evident in this medium to full-bodied, deep ruby/purple-tinged offering. Sweet aromas of mocha, black cherries, cassis, and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: Flowers, candied blackberries, and stones can be found in the nose of the ruby-colored 2002 Corton-Renardes. This ample, broad, medium-bodied wine is sweet, plush, and fruit-forward. Black fruits and spices are found...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 90 points: An elegant, dark ruby/purple-tinged effort displaying notes of tobacco smoke intermixed with sweet currant, cherry, and some toast, this medium-bodied wine has the hallmark purity married graciously with nicely...

Wine Spectator, 96 points: Loads of ripe currants licorice and toasted oak on the nose. Subtle yet impressive. Full-bodied with a solid core of ripe fruit and chewy tannins. Big and juicy. Deep midpalate for a 2002. This is the wine of the vintage...

Vinous, 93 points: Good bright red. Complex, soil-inflected aromas of raspberry, espresso, minerals, smoke, flowers, mocha and roasted herbs. Silky-sweet in the way of the best examples from this outstanding premier cru, with sappy flavors...

Vinous, 93 points: Red-ruby, a bit lighter in color than Lignier's premier crus from Chambolle and Morey. Pure, perfumed aromas of red cherry and flowers. Very suave and silky in the mouth, with a lovely restrained sweetness. The perfumed...

TheWineCellarInsider.com, 95 points: Elegant, refined, charming and displaying more ripeness than you'd expect from the vintage, after a 2 hour decant, the wine opened with cassis, cigar box, blackberry, cedar wood, earth, stone and forest floor aromatics...