2020 Domaine Drouhin-Laroze Bonnes Mares Grand Cru
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The 2020 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru was cropped at just 20-22hl/ha due to the dryness. Today this is similar on the nose to the sample I encountered in London, though perhaps there is a small reduction at play. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, fine depth and plenty of mineralité ; the 30% whole bunch imparts a pleasant pepperiness on the finish. Quite a cerebral Bonnes-Mares this, not flamboyant, but there is real complexity here.
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The 2020 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru offers ample fruit on the nose: raspberry preserve and wild strawberry. Perhaps here, I would like more blue fruit, more floral scents to really pin it down as a Bonnes-Mares. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy tannins, fine acidity, just missing a little tension on the finish where some of the warmth of the summer dictates the style a little. Fine, though I suspect the ‘19 will be better.