Very impressive in its youthful exuberant phase. Not much detail yet but bold and bright. Nice blend of purple fruit, tannin and acidity. Intense and serious. Should be outstanding in 5-10 years.
La Tablee: Bonneau retrospective (Mercerie): The showstopper in the flight for me and glad to see that we've got some bottles. You can just tell that this is going to be a great wine and I am somehow though struggling to explain how. Funnily enough it's more black fruits than red. It's again that great structure that's in all the wines. It's different - more precise and defined than some of the others. Interesting but really lovely to see. Importer noted 2016 is very similar.
Exceptional. Provocative mix of dark fruit with some green (stem) flavors that keep this nicely lean and balanced, unlike many other overextracted CdPs. I think this will further improve from here and am betting on 15 years age for my 2009s.
The moment I walked into VK's home, I spied from the corner of my eye this little fellow standing on the dining table, capsule still on and looking unsure if it was meant to be opened. (Though my wine geek days are behind me, and my eyesight less than perfect, like most of you I can still spot a wine from 50 feet.) Where did you get this??? I demanded to know, as I grabbed hold of a corkscrew.
I thought it might be young and alcoholic, rustic even, but it was nothing of the sort. The wine was deep ruby, with a darkly joyful fruity floral herb bouquet so finely etched and faultless I thought for a moment a scientist in a white coat, working out of some 22nd century AI-assisted wine lab might have concocted it. On the palate, it was rich in texture and flavor, with such robust fruit yet so very clean and precise it's hard to believe the stuff I've read about old barrels and moldy cellar floors at this estate. I'm not sure how long it will last, but it seems silly to ask given how enjoyable it is now. A revelation.
Wine Group Dinner #174, Harveys Restaurant, Brisbane. Cult Wines of the World (Harvey's Restaurant, James St, Fortitude Valley): Wine Group Dinner #174, Harveys Restaurant, Brisbane. This wine has a deep dark raspberry colour and an explosively rich nose of black raspberries, blueberries, cherry, myrtle pastilles and lavender. The palate is viscous and richly flavoured with a velvet texture and yet a soft and persistent finish that leaves no sense of heaviness after that first attack of rich and varied fruits. Impressive.
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In the 4 years since I last tried this wine it has just exploded with aromatic nuance and richness. I significantly underrated it in 2016. Absolutely stunning right now, and WOTN for our dinner. Essentially everyone put it head and shoulders ahead of every other wine on the table (including some exceptional competition).
Dark, with a heady, wild nose of black cherry liqueur, garrigue, tobacco and licorice. Rich yet balanced, with just the level of acidity needed to keep the fruit from seeing fully ripe. Polished tannins. An irresistible bottle -- try one if you own it! At this point it will probably hold for around 6-8 years but I suspect it is already at peak, and in fact by 8-10 years from now will surely start to decline.
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Alma with Ellen & James: YH & Joy’s bottle - my first Celestins. Black fruits, spiced plums, kirsch, barbecue meats, ink, mocha, tobacco, spices, herbs, figs. Velvety and beautifully concentrated. Milky Way on the palate. Rich, savoury, complex. Hedonistic. This is still very young today and should improve (tremendously) with more time. Memorable outing.
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Beautiful ripe dark cherry fruit with hints of earth and game. Super-intense and poised for greatness. This seems to have that extra edge of ripeness and funk to make this a great bottling down the road. 94+
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Underbart parfymerad doft med körsbär, tjära, lavendel och stening mineral. Väldigt fin balans med ungdomlig ren syra, maffig men ren frukt och silkiga tanniner. Lång fin eftersmak
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Medium purple with a dark core but a light rim. The nose on Bonneau's 2010 is quite exotic, showing cherry pastille, cranberries and ripe red plums, beeswax, creosote, garrigue -- a really heady mixture and I would have to say, unusual for a recently-bottled wine. But of course this has been in barrel for ages. Then on the palate, a lovely balance: Burgundian, with the fruit rather tart, serious acidity, soft tannins, great length. I'll say 93pts but I could be low.
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7/14/2023 - sdr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very impressive in its youthful exuberant phase. Not much detail yet but bold and bright. Nice blend of purple fruit, tannin and acidity. Intense and serious. Should be outstanding in 5-10 years.
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1/27/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
La Tablee: Bonneau retrospective (Mercerie): The showstopper in the flight for me and glad to see that we've got some bottles. You can just tell that this is going to be a great wine and I am somehow though struggling to explain how. Funnily enough it's more black fruits than red. It's again that great structure that's in all the wines. It's different - more precise and defined than some of the others. Interesting but really lovely to see. Importer noted 2016 is very similar.
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6/15/2021 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: flawed
Leather nose. Some leather and very muted fruit but overall very closed. Probably a bad bottle. Shame. Score withheld.
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2/9/2021 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 97 Points
Exceptional. Provocative mix of dark fruit with some green (stem) flavors that keep this nicely lean and balanced, unlike many other overextracted CdPs. I think this will further improve from here and am betting on 15 years age for my 2009s.
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12/5/2020 - ilee Likes this wine: 97 Points
The moment I walked into VK's home, I spied from the corner of my eye this little fellow standing on the dining table, capsule still on and looking unsure if it was meant to be opened. (Though my wine geek days are behind me, and my eyesight less than perfect, like most of you I can still spot a wine from 50 feet.) Where did you get this??? I demanded to know, as I grabbed hold of a corkscrew.
I thought it might be young and alcoholic, rustic even, but it was nothing of the sort. The wine was deep ruby, with a darkly joyful fruity floral herb bouquet so finely etched and faultless I thought for a moment a scientist in a white coat, working out of some 22nd century AI-assisted wine lab might have concocted it. On the palate, it was rich in texture and flavor, with such robust fruit yet so very clean and precise it's hard to believe the stuff I've read about old barrels and moldy cellar floors at this estate. I'm not sure how long it will last, but it seems silly to ask given how enjoyable it is now. A revelation.
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6/10/2020 - drjb Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wine Group Dinner #174, Harveys Restaurant, Brisbane. Cult Wines of the World (Harvey's Restaurant, James St, Fortitude Valley): Wine Group Dinner #174, Harveys Restaurant, Brisbane. This wine has a deep dark raspberry colour and an explosively rich nose of black raspberries, blueberries, cherry, myrtle pastilles and lavender. The palate is viscous and richly flavoured with a velvet texture and yet a soft and persistent finish that leaves no sense of heaviness after that first attack of rich and varied fruits. Impressive.
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2/21/2020 - KPB Likes this wine: 97 Points
In the 4 years since I last tried this wine it has just exploded with aromatic nuance and richness. I significantly underrated it in 2016. Absolutely stunning right now, and WOTN for our dinner. Essentially everyone put it head and shoulders ahead of every other wine on the table (including some exceptional competition).
Dark, with a heady, wild nose of black cherry liqueur, garrigue, tobacco and licorice. Rich yet balanced, with just the level of acidity needed to keep the fruit from seeing fully ripe. Polished tannins. An irresistible bottle -- try one if you own it! At this point it will probably hold for around 6-8 years but I suspect it is already at peak, and in fact by 8-10 years from now will surely start to decline.
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1/6/2020 - dnnk88 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Alma with Ellen & James: YH & Joy’s bottle - my first Celestins. Black fruits, spiced plums, kirsch, barbecue meats, ink, mocha, tobacco, spices, herbs, figs. Velvety and beautifully concentrated. Milky Way on the palate. Rich, savoury, complex. Hedonistic. This is still very young today and should improve (tremendously) with more time. Memorable outing.
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2/4/2019 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
Beautiful ripe dark cherry fruit with hints of earth and game. Super-intense and poised for greatness. This seems to have that extra edge of ripeness and funk to make this a great bottling down the road. 94+
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2/14/2017 - FamilyLarsson wrote: 93 Points
Underbart parfymerad doft med körsbär, tjära, lavendel och stening mineral. Väldigt fin balans med ungdomlig ren syra, maffig men ren frukt och silkiga tanniner. Lång fin eftersmak
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3/29/2016 - KPB wrote: 93 Points
Medium purple with a dark core but a light rim. The nose on Bonneau's 2010 is quite exotic, showing cherry pastille, cranberries and ripe red plums, beeswax, creosote, garrigue -- a really heady mixture and I would have to say, unusual for a recently-bottled wine. But of course this has been in barrel for ages. Then on the palate, a lovely balance: Burgundian, with the fruit rather tart, serious acidity, soft tannins, great length. I'll say 93pts but I could be low.
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