2020 Bonnes Mares
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The 2020 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has a little more new oak on the nose, though it is simpatico with the fruit: black cherries, boysenberry and violets. This gains complexity and nuance with aeration. It is absolutely seductive. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit, powdery in texture, linear and with a sapid, quite Clos Saint-Denis-like finish. Très. Grand. Cru. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Neal Martin
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Cask sample. Just a light spicy note on the nose. Then sweet and concentrated but without the grace of the Clos de Bèze. At this stage still a bit stolid. (JR)
The 2020 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru is surprisingly backward on the nose with tightly-wound blackberry, redcurrant and cranberry fruit with sea spray and light pine cone aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy redcurrant and strawberry fruit. This is a solid Bonnes-Mares, correct, not flashy but serious and as such, it deserves several years in bottle. It has the substance and complexity to reward those with patience.