2023, Domaine Bruno Clair, BONNES-MARES, Grand CruA brooding if attractively perfumed nose features spicy and floral notes of plum, red raspberry and soft wood spice. The round and gorgeously textured flavours possess good volume and solid density while exhibiting excellent power on the sappy, complex and beautifully long finish that, much like the Clos de Bze, is very much built for extended cellaring. This is potentially great but not a wine that will make for good early drinking. 93 96 Burghound.

95/100 Stephen Brook

as they uproot the heavier clay plots

cigar box and iron ore over a core of crushed blackberries and black cherries with intermittent wafts of black and red currants

92 James Button

The 2024 Clos Fourtet was picked between September 25 to October 11 at 30 hl/ha

The palate is medium-bodied with tobacco and graphite-infused black fruit framed by svelte tannins

cigar box and iris

chalk and tomato leaf are very nicely delineated

It seems to grow in stature in the glass

not just a reflection of the vintage but in the increasing concentration found in Lynch Bages over the past decade

rich and fleshy

revealing ripe