Structured and substantial; there is a black plum and mulberry fruit, accented with notes of smoke, fresh saddle leather, earth and game. The texture is super-concentrated, with firm, grippy tannins, massive extract, and more than enough freshness to carry this to a superbly long finish. The grapes are from a parcel of 1.64ha on the Morey side of the appellation; the oldest vines were planted just after the Second World War, the youngest being 40 years old. This is top-flight wine.
97 points, Charles Curtis, Decanter (May 2024)
A touch of bitter chocolate gives extra appeal to this powerful, highly structured wine that has a lot of earthy, meaty, forest-berry depth. This has a much firmer finish, bold and crisp, than the majority of Bonnes-Mares grands crus. From the Morey-Saint-Denis side of this site, where the soil is deep and red.
96-97 points, Stuart Pigott, James Suckling (Jan 2025)
The 2023 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has a well-defined bouquet with black cherries, wild strawberries and light loamy aromas coming through with aeration. It is maybe a little Musigny-like. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and gentle grip, slightly peppery in style with a persistent, quite saline finish. Without a doubt, this is a fabulous Bonnes-Mares with great potential. It may very well land at the top of my banded score.
95-97 points, Neal Martin, Vinous (Jan 2025)
The 2023 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru is a beauty, bursting with notes of orange zest, black raspberries, exotic spices, potpourri, violets and incense. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered, with a cool core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins and animated by lively acids, it concludes with a long, saline finish.
94-96 points, William Kelley, Wine Advocate (Jan 2025)
A brooding if attractively perfumed nose features spicy and floral notes of plum, red raspberry and soft wood spice. The round and gorgeously textured flavors possess good volume and solid density while exhibiting excellent power on the sappy, complex and beautifully long finish that, much like the Clos de Bèze, is very much built for extended cellaring. This is potentially great but not a wine that will make for good early drinking. *Don’t Miss!*
93-96 points, Allen Meadows, Burghound (Jan 2025)
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