(JG94-95 points) The Bonnes-Mares 2014 at Domaine de Comte de Vogüé comes in at a very svelte 12.4 percent alcohol, but delivers just lovely fruit sappiness to go along with stellar transparency. The nose delivers a lovely range of scents, with notes of damson plums, black cherries, raw cocoa, smoke, mustard seed, peonies, gentle notes of new wood and a beautifully refined range of soil tones. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very soil-driven, with plenty of sappiness in reserve at the core, ripe, beautifully-integrated tannins and a long, vibrant and very, very promising finish. A beautiful example of Bonnes-Mares in the making.

The 2015 Bonnes Mares Grand Cru is really blossoming now that the wine is safely in bottle. It has a gorgeous, floral bouquet with scents of blueberry, blackberry and briary, wonderful mineral expression here with a palpable sense of energy and precision. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin, what you might call a "cool" Bonnes Mares, sleek and sensual with very fine tension towards the red cherry and kirsch tinged finish. What a gorgeous Bonnes-Mares, though I would be inclined to afford it several years in bottle. Tasted November 2016. - Neal Martin

(BH92-94 points) A completely different aromatic profile is present with its much earthier array of notably fresh red berries and discreet sauvage aromas. There is excellent richness to the muscular and full-bodied flavors that also possess fine mid-palate concentration that coats the mouth and helps to buffer the very firm tannic spine on the seamlessly proportioned finale. This very firmly structured effort is clearly going to require 15 to 20 years to arrive at its peak.