Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé’s Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru 2002 is a Pinot Noir from Burgundy’s Côte de Nuits, drawn from the domaine’s holding in Bonnes-Mares (reported as about 2.66–2.7 hectares). Bonnes-Mares itself is a roughly 15-hectare Grand Cru straddling Chambolle-Musigny and Morey-Saint-Denis, known for Pinot Noir grown on limestone-and-clay soils with an east-southeast exposure. Vintage conditions in 2002 generally favored purity and balance in red Burgundy, and this bottling’s reviews describe a wine that marries aromatic complexity with clear structural heft.

In Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate (June 2004), the wine earned an excellent 94 points on release (listed as 92–94). Pierre Rovani wrote that the “intense scents…burst from the glass,” citing “dark jammy fruits, spices, and blood oranges,” and called it “bold, powerful,” and “crammed with black cherries, allspice, and raspberries,” finishing with “copious quantities of exquisitely ripened tannin.” His early drinking window was 2007–2017, underscoring how assertive and built-for-time the wine appeared in its youth.

Two decades on, Burghound (September 2024) also rates the wine at an excellent 93 points and finds it in a strong place. The note describes a “classic ruby color with only slight lightening at the rim,” and an “expressive nose” led by “mostly secondary aromas of lavender, violet” alongside “ripe red and black fruit” and “subtle earth notes.” On the palate, Burghound emphasizes scale and intensity: “big, muscular, robust and powerful,” “impressively concentrated,” with a “mouth coating and beautifully persistent finish.” Importantly for collectors, Burghound concludes it has “arrived at the front end of its peak drinkability…[and] should hold at this level for years to come,” while noting one past bottle showed “brett-like elements.”

Overall, this is a mature Bonnes-Mares that reviewers consistently frame as concentrated, aromatic, and firmly structured, with current signals that it is drinking well now and still has stamina.