Bonnes Mares, Domaine Dujac 2023

The 2023 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has a complex bouquet with a mixture of red and black fruit, Morello cherries and blackcurrant, later joined with subtle blueberry scents. It's finely delineated, quite open and intense as Bonnes-Mares should be. The palate has a touch of dark chocolate on the entry. It's quite fleshy, but there is real structure underneath. There are touches of black pepper toward the finish. Excellent. (Drink between 2028-2052)

An attractive deepish ruby purple. The bouquet has a charming weight of dark raspberry fruit, which continues on the palate, but the tannins are firmer, indicating that a fair amount more elevage is needed. Everything is there, but at the moment the Bonnes Mares comes over as more muscular than one might expect. Finishes more on red fruit. No problem to give this the benefit of the doubt.