Provenance

Wine Cellar Private Client

Critics Ratings

'Rich, powerful and complex with a superbly spicy nose and warm, ripe, relatively rounded flavors and outstanding length. This is quite expressive for young Bonnes Mares and there is a beguiling freshness to the lively flavors. Direct and linear in style yet with much better than average density for the vintage.' - Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, 92/100 (2003)

'A powerful wine with aromas of coffee, spice and smoked meats. With its huge rich red fruit flavors and dense sweet tannins, it manages to combine a sense of structure with piercing pure fruit. It will age well, and a corkscrew shouldn't even go near this bottle for another three to five years.' - Roger Voss, Wine Enthusiast, 94/100 (Nov 2002)