Bonnes Mares Grand Cru, Comte Vogue 2018 (3x75cl OWC)

Description

By Vinous in 2020  (V98)

The 2018 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru is a limpid deep purple. It has a heavenly bouquet distantly related to the Les Amoureuses, offering precocious but detailed blueberry, black cherry, crushed iris petal and crushed limestone aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with an edgy, marine-influenced opening, a tang of shucked oyster shells infusing the black and blueberry fruit, leading to a detailed, tensile, lightly spiced finish. A long tail of white pepper lingers on the aftertaste. This is absolutely divine.

By Jasper Morris in 2019  (JM95-98)

Once again the colour is notably dark. Really intriguing deep dark fruit nose, lifted and a touch of deep dark violets, on the cusp of red and black, though perhaps more the latter. This has a racy mineral quality throughout and perhaps the freshest finish, very juicy, myrtilles especially with some rich ripe red cherries alongside. I think this will be truly exciting but We Will Have to Wait a Very Long Time.

By Burghound in 2019  (BH94)

This is very deeply colored, in fact so much so that it would make a young port blush! The ripe aromas of red and blue berries, spice and earth display a mentholated top note. The dense, powerful and mouthcoating broad-shouldered flavors possess evident muscularity while delivering excellent length on the youthfully austere finale. This isn’t refined, indeed it’s borderline rustic, but it’s a dramatic and impressive wine that should live for decades.