(19/20) Really exciting and tense. Great stuff! Really very fine indeed. Really tightly wound. Bitter, dried-citrus-peel notes. Tight.

Fantastic aromas of black licorice and sweet tobacco change to raspberries and follow through to a full-bodied palate with lovely silky tannins and a long caressing finish. Multilayered. A beauty. Best after 2008. 3330...

(92-94 points) The intense scents of the 2002 Bonnes Mares burst from the glass, exhibiting dark jammy fruits, spices, and blood oranges. Bold, powerful, and crammed with black cherries, allspice, and raspberries, it...

One of the better successes of this overlooked and misunderstood vintage is the 2002 La Mission Haut-Brion, a wine that's really beginning to drink well. Offering up a deep bouquet of cassis, burning embers and cigar ash...

One of the better successes of this overlooked and misunderstood vintage is the 2002 La Mission Haut-Brion, a wine that's really beginning to drink well. Offering up a deep bouquet of cassis, burning embers and cigar ash...

An impressively youthful and focused Champagne showing aromas of candied citrus, stones, chalk, vibrant minerals, fresh pineapple and subtle toast. Caressing bubbles with a full body and toasty complexity on the palate...