Comte Georges de Vogüé - Bonnes Mares 2018 (Pre-arrival) (1.5L)
Price: $1395.00
| Producer | Comte Georges de Vogüé |
| Country | France |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2018 |
| Sku | 1272 |
| Size | 1.5L |
Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé is one of the most famous producers in Burgundy with a lineage dating back almost half a millennium in the Côte d'Or. The family is part of the history of the village of Chambolle-Musigny where it produces elegant wines made from Pinot Noir. Musigny's steep slopes and stony friable soils and winemaker Francois Millet's minimally invasive techniques combine to produce a heavily fragranced wine with notes of violets raspberries and blackberries. The wine which is one of the most expensive in Chambolle-Musigny is highly collectable and has the ability to age for decades. The Bonnes-Mares wine on the other hand tends to be more robust with more direct fruit and stronger tannins."
Vinous: 96-98 Points
(Domaine Comte Georges De Vogüé Bonnes-mares Grand Cru Red) 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. (Drink between 2025-2060)
Burghound: 95 Points
(Domaine Comte de Vogüé Bonnes Mares Grand Cru Red) 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 mouth coating 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 dramatically impressive and very firmly structured wine that should live for decades. (Drink starting 2038)
John Gilman: 94 Points
(Bonnes-Mares- Domaine de Comte de Georges de Vogüé) The 2018 Bonnes-Mares from Domaine de Comte de Vogüé had not yet been racked so it was the first wine in the cellar where one could really see the size and shape of the vintage here in a proper perspective. This is going to be a lovely wine as it delivers a fine aromatic constellation of black plums black cherries blueberries dark soil tones venison woodsmoke and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep full-bodied and rock solid at the core with lovely sappiness and mineral undertow fine-grained tannins and a long youthful and vibrant finish. This reminds me a bit of the 1993 Bonnes-Mares here though I am not sure why as 1993 was a cooler year and 2018 is a solar vintage but there are some structural similarities and the same sappy black fruity personality that I find attractive in both vintages. The 2018 Bonnes-Mares will take plenty of time to blossom but it is superb potential. (Drink between 2035-2085)
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