A beautifully well-layered and ripe nose of cassis, spice, earth and sauvage-tinged aromas are also trimmed in just enough wood to notice. Like all of the best wines in the Jadot 2012 portfolio this is impressively concentrated with plenty of palate soaking dry extract on the muscular broad-shouldered flavors that are shaped by a very firm tannic spine and superb finishing length and power. This is a classic Bonnes Mares that will require a long snooze in a cold cellar before it's fully ready for prime time drinking. *Don't Miss!*

The 2012 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru, which underwent a tardy malolactic fermentation, is surprisingly well behaved on the nose: strict at first and preferring to unfold in piecemeal fashion to reveal saturnine black fruit laced with inkwell and Indian spice scents. The palate is very well balanced: packed full of dense black fruit and struck through with a keen, almost racy acidity. The finish is very solid and structured for Bonnes. (NM)

Maison Jadot has produced a stellar young bottle of Bonnes-Mares in 2012. The wine offers up a superb and very youthful bouquet of red and black cherries, plums, dark soil tones, gamebirds, woodsmoke, mustard seed and cedar. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and quite powerful in its structure, with a rock solid core of fruit, firm, well-integrated tannins, plenty of sappiness and a very, very long, chewy and quite masculine finish. This is a classic, old school bottle of Bonnes-Mares in the best sense of the term! 94+