Roumier Bonnes Mares Grand Cru 2020

99 points/'Le Coup de Coeur,' La Revue du Vin de France: "Great aromatic refinement in the precise aromas of blue fruits and blood orange from the Bonnes-Mares. Sparkling and flavorful, the charred flesh overflows with fruit, athletic, all lean muscles, momentum, and silky length. With its breathtaking persistence, this wine imposes its extraordinary class and possesses something magical. (2023)"

98 points Charles Curtis MW (Decanter): "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. Drinking Window: 2025-2050. (10/10/21)"

96-98 points William Kelley (Wine Advocate): "The 2022 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru is deep and resonant, unfurling in the glass with aromas of raspberries and red cherries mingling with rose petal, Indian spices and vanilla pod. Full-bodied, layered and concentrated, it's dense and multidimensional, yet it avoids the hulking muscularity of which this cuvée is capable, retaining a cool core of fruit and concluding with a long, sapid finish. Roumier prefers his more ethereal (and more overtly whole-cluster inflected) Amoureuses, but I gravitate towards the profound Bonnes-Mares. (1/18/24)"

96 points Jasper Morris, MW (Inside Burgundy): "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. (Sep 2024)"

96 points Allen Meadows (Burghound): 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. Drink: 2040+. (Jan 2023)"

95+ points Neal Martin (Vinous): "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. Drink: 2027-2050. (Sep 2024)"