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The 2015 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has a lovely, open-knit, brambly red berry nose with some stem addition that will need time to fully meld together. The crisp, medium-bodied palate offers fine tannin and plenty of tension - again, the stem addition clearly exerting an influence. This is not a Bonnes-Mares for those seeking voluptuous blue fruit or flamboyance - it is old-school, stemmy Burgundy, and quite frankly, it is completely adorable. It just needs at least a decade in bottle. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
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Neal Martin
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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Tasted blind, the 2015 Bonnes Mares Grand Cru showed very well, bursting from the glass with a fragrant bouquet of orange peel, dried flowers, whole-cluster spice and sweet red berry fruit. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, satiny and ample, with a textural attack, melting tannins and juicy acids, concluding with a long, chalky finish. It's a dramatic, stylized Bonnes-Mares that is immediately recognizable as a Vougeraie wine, but it's beautifully realized.
(from "the last parcel before Morey-Saint-Denis, in a tiny clos ," notes Vincent): Bright medium red. Sexy, almost exotic sweetness to the aromas of cherry, raspberry, wild herbs and stone. Wonderfully ripe but dry, conveying a rare combination of outstanding volume and great finesse without any impression of dryness--or easy sweetness, for that matter. A classic uncompromising young Bonnes-Mares but without the hardness of old-style wines from this long-aging grand cru. The spicy finish rises inexorably. As youthful as this is, its remarkably fine-grained texture gives it an easy digestibility. This protected site really seals in the heat, said Vincent, who brought in this fruit at close to 13% potential alcohol and did not chaptalize.
About the producer

Based south of Nuits-Saint-Georges in Prémeaux-Prissey, Domaine de la Vougeraie was created in 1999, grouping all of Jean-Claude Boisset’s holdings under one name. The property has a total 40 hectares of vines, with extensive holdings in Vougeot as well as plots in six Grands Crus.