2015 Bonnes Mares
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(50% destemmed by hand with a secateur ): Bright, dark red with ruby tones. Sexy, carnal aromas of black cherry, black raspberry and chocolate, with superripe porty and resiny suggestions and an oaky element. Large-scaled and thick but the dark fruit, mocha and brown spice flavors are energized by outstanding mineral lift. Finishes with substantial dusty, fine-grained tannins and rising, unflagging length. This is nearly impossible to scrape off your palate--but why would you want to? This hugely dense, classically dry Bonnes-Mares will need a good decade in the cellar to express its inherent complexity.
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Neal Martin
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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The 2015 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru, another métayage with the Mazis-Chambertin that debuted last year, comes from a mid-slope parcel on the Terre Blanche. It is matured in 70% new oak with 40-50% whole bunches. The bouquet is very pure with blackberry, blueberry, candied orange peel and rose petal aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with velvety tannin, enormous depth and brilliant precision and tension. This might well constitute the best Bonnes-Mares of the vintage, the finish tingling with energy and concentration. As Kate Bush once sang...wow.
(Mortet works with two parcels, the larger one "in the middle" and the other closer to the village of Chambolle-Musigny; 40% vendange entier ; 70% new oak): Bright red-ruby. Inviting scents of black raspberry, coffee and mocha. At once dense and lively in the mouth, conveying an impression of energy and power to the flavors of dark raspberry, wild herbs and minerals. Really stains the palate on the very long, slowly mounting finish but this classically dry, vibrant Bonnes-Mares will need substantial bottle aging to express itself. (It was at this point in our tasting that Mortet expressed the belief that his 2015s will remain closed for up to a decade.)
The 2015 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru, another metayage with the Mazis-Chambertin that debuted last year, comes from a mid-slope parcel on the Terre Blanche. It is matured in 70% new oak with 40-50% whole bunches. The bouquet is very pure with blackberry, blueberry, candied orange peel and rose petal aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with velvety tannin, enormous depth and brilliant precision and tension. This might well constitute the best Bonnes-Mares of the vintage, the finish tingling with energy and concentration. As Kate Bush once sang...wow. Dec 2016, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
This estate, today with Arnaud Mortet at the helm, makes some of Gevrey-Chambertin’s finest wines. Working with 16 hectares, as well as a few négociant parcels, this property makes perfumed and chiselled Pinot Noir.