Chateauneuf du Pape 2007 Henri Bonneau

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (92)

The same can be said of the 2007 Chateauneuf du Pape, which has put on weight, and again, is a better wine now, after four years of elevage, than it was when I first tasted it, where it was slightly skinny and atypical for the vintage, but now it’s showing the vintage’s strong fruit character, full-bodied power, and plenty of opulence and glycerin. This is the brilliance of what Bonneau does. The long elevage in barrel, which makes no sense to either me or any progressive-thinking person, not to mention every oenologist that has probably ever visited these cellars, does indeed work, and thank God there are mysteries in wine that we will never understand. Henri Bonneau’s winemaking and elevage are certainly two of them.

BOW (7.50)