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98 JG.
"If there has even been a greater young vintage of Roumier Bonnes-Mares during Christophe’s tenure than the 2010 version, then I have not tasted it. The Roumier Bonnes-Mares is comprised of 60% terres blanches and 40% terres rouges, which seems to really play up the elegance and floral side of the 2010 vintage. The stunning nose offers up a complex and sappy mélange of red and black cherries, red plums, cocoa, woodsmoke, pungent roses and violets, a brilliant base of soil and a deft framing of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and full-bodied, with laser-like focus, haunting transparency, a rock solid and sappy core of fruit, and brilliant balance on the seamless, ripely tannic, endless and magically refined finish. A stunning, stunning bottle of young Bonnes-Mares." John Gilman, View From the Cellar, Nov/Dec 2011, Issue #36 |