2010 Henri Bonneau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Réserve des Célestins

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 94.9 points

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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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