Bonnes Mares 2020 Georges Roumier

Classification	Grand Cru
Type	Red
Brand	Georges Roumier
Vintage	2020
Country	France
Region	Burgundy, Cotes de Nuits
Grape	Pinot Noir
Volume	0,75
Condition	Perfect
Label	Perfect
Drinkable	2025-2050
Stock	3

Professional reviews

BOW (9)

Vinous (95)

The 2020 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has a reductive nose, though behind that, there is a smorgasbord of attractive dark berry fruit tinged with black olives. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit, touches of licorice and some elements of overripe fruit towards the finish. But it's an enjoyable Grand Cru, a little "sexier" than its peers, and it improves with time in the glass. There's real sophistication locked up in this Bonnes-Mares, but it needs time. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.

Burghound (96)

A perfumed and spicier than usual nose of both red and dark cherry freely offers up its nuances of violet, lavender and lilac. There is again a really lovely texture to the succulent but concentrated and overtly powerful big-bodied flavors that deliver stupendous length on the compact, palate drenching and hugely long finish. This is a very impressive, but also very firmly structured, Bonnes Mares that should still be around 50+ years from now.

Jasper Morris (96)

A fairly saturated purple. Initially on the nose I found some geraniums and possibly a degree of oxidation, but the wine then cleaned up quite quickly, coming together with air. It is still slightly adolescent, with firmer tannins to finish. This is a wine in need of time.

Decanter (98)

Ripe plummy fruit of exceptional purity, suggestions of mineral, smoke and wild roses. Despite the perfumed, ethereal aromas, the wine is broad-shouldered, tannic and powerful. This truly has the substance to age for decades. Domaine Roumier farms 1.6ha of Bonnes-Mares spread over four parcels. There is a mix of the white marl ('terres blanches') at the top of the slope and the red clay ('terres rouges'). Most of the fruit is fermented as whole clusters, extraction is gentle, and the amount of new wood is modest.