Provenance

Private Client

Critics Ratings

‘(from young vines, probably to be bottled as Marie Beurrier) Very fresh, precise red berry and candied cherry aromas complicated by sexy baking spices and flowers. Juicy and sweet, with deep raspberry flavor and a velvety texture. This seems utterly tannin-free and finishes with exceptional persistence.’ - Josh Raynolds, Vinous, 93/100 (Jan 2009)

‘The same can be said of the 2007 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Marie Beurrier, which has put on weight, and again, is a better wine now, after four years of elevage, than it was when I first tasted it, where it was slightly skinny and atypical for the vintage, but now it’s showing the vintage’s strong fruit character, full-bodied power, and plenty of opulence and glycerin. This is the brilliance of what Bonneau does. The long elevage in barrel, which makes no sense to either me or any progressive-thinking person, not to mention every oenologist that has probably ever visited these cellars, does indeed work, and thank God there are mysteries in wine that we will never understand. Henri Bonneau’s winemaking and elevage are certainly two of them.’ - Robert M. Parker, Jr., Wine Advocate, 90-93/100