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95+ JG.
"Grand Mont is one of the very top terroirs in all of Bourgueil, but I had never tasted this bottling from Pierre Gauthier until this brilliant 2009 crossed my path this autumn. The wine is barrel-fermented and probably sees about fifteen to twenty percent new wood during its elevage, which just adds polish to its profile, while still allowing the superb signature of soil to remain front and center. This beautifully pure and refined wine is stunning on both the nose and palate, with the bouquet soaring from the glass in a magical mélange of black cherries, dark plums, raw cocoa, a touch of tree bark, cigar smoke, gravel and a very discreet touch of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very pure on the attack, with a rock solid core of fruit, ripe, moderate tannins, laser-like focus and stunning length and grip on the complex and very elegant finish. This is a great, great bottle of young Bourgueil!" John Gilman, View From the Cellar, Sep/Oct 2014, Issue #53 |