Restaurant note. Not sure, but I believe 1 hour decant. Spicy oak, algae, bright young red fruit, vanilla, very young. After 3+ hours red rasberry and black tea. While clearly a really good wine- it needs several more years to approach potential and will last a long time.
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Vanilla oak and still a bit closed. Even after an hour it was still just starting to unfurl its wonderful sweet and slightly sour cherry fruits. I suspect this wine needed at least 5 hours of air to do it justice or at least another 5 years in the bottle.
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Youthful all around starting with the robe. This has a very long life ahead of it. If you’re drinking this you’ll definitely want to decant. Will improve with more age as the oak is still integrating believe it or not.
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Nose: bubble gum, red flower, hints of hawthorn berry, red fruits, herbs, cherry Notes: beautiful flowers and bubble gum nose. Rather balanced and harmonious palate. Coming from a legendary vintage of the 90s I do believe this wine has a long road ahead of it despite its readiness now. Drank after breathing in the bottle for 1 hour. This is certainly a great demonstration of Bonnes Mares and Vogue at the same time, with excellent fragrance yet a solid and muscular structure plus a chewy texture to the wine. Once it passes the 1.5 hours cherry and dark fruit aromas begin to come up. Quite a change of style has appeared and I am pleasantly surprised that the lively and lighter red fruits aroma and palate has evolved into a feast of cool, dark fruits. Although I have no objection that this is an extremely complex and pleasant wine but I would have a bit of reservation on the finesse and elegance of it. Drink: now - 2038 Rating: 92
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(Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Bonnes Mares) Dark cherry red color; oak, rich red fruit, smoke, savory nose; oak, smoked eel, mineral, tart cherry, iodine palate; medium-plus finish
(Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Bonnes Mares) Medium red with pale meniscus; lovely roses, earthy, tart cherry nose; tight, tart red fruit and roses palate with serious tannins, needs 5 more years; medium-plus finish 91+ pts.
(Comte Georges de Vogüé Bonnes-Mares) Medium-plus cherry-red. The nose has a little oak-toast and shows a much more savoury and spicy edge than the other wines, the fruit has a blacker edge too. The spice is also there on the palate, in-fact it currently defines the wine more than the fruit. A completely different expression to the others, it shows impressive though primary density and balanced structure - more so than the 99 Amoureuses - different, but very interesting.
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8/18/2023 - Venice Al Likes this wine:
Restaurant note. Not sure, but I believe 1 hour decant. Spicy oak, algae, bright young red fruit, vanilla, very young. After 3+ hours red rasberry and black tea. While clearly a really good wine- it needs several more years to approach potential and will last a long time.
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8/13/2023 - TheFoodieTraveler Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very good, but still in early drinking window. A little red fruit, a bit of asian spice, tannic spine and a lot of muscle.
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8/12/2023 - mxpbuy Likes this wine: 93 Points
Vanilla oak and still a bit closed. Even after an hour it was still just starting to unfurl its wonderful sweet and slightly sour cherry fruits.
I suspect this wine needed at least 5 hours of air to do it justice or at least another 5 years in the bottle.
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2/11/2023 - bbq_grandcru Likes this wine: 93 Points
Youthful all around starting with the robe. This has a very long life ahead of it. If you’re drinking this you’ll definitely want to decant. Will improve with more age as the oak is still integrating believe it or not.
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1/21/2023 - TWSA Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nose: bubble gum, red flower, hints of hawthorn berry, red fruits, herbs, cherry
Notes: beautiful flowers and bubble gum nose. Rather balanced and harmonious palate. Coming from a legendary vintage of the 90s I do believe this wine has a long road ahead of it despite its readiness now. Drank after breathing in the bottle for 1 hour. This is certainly a great demonstration of Bonnes Mares and Vogue at the same time, with excellent fragrance yet a solid and muscular structure plus a chewy texture to the wine. Once it passes the 1.5 hours cherry and dark fruit aromas begin to come up. Quite a change of style has appeared and I am pleasantly surprised that the lively and lighter red fruits aroma and palate has evolved into a feast of cool, dark fruits. Although I have no objection that this is an extremely complex and pleasant wine but I would have a bit of reservation on the finesse and elegance of it.
Drink: now - 2038
Rating: 92
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