Bonnes Mares 1996 75cl

This dark colored wine has a violet and cookie dough-laced nose that gives way to a velvety-textured, massively concentrated, masculine, broad-shouldered and powerful character. This full-bodied, thick, highly-structured, intense, and extraordinarily proportioned wine is crammed with candied blackberries, cassis liqueur, beef blood, and loads of supple tannins. Its immensely long finish tails off after 40 seconds on notes of sweet blueberries and vanilla-imbued oak. Anticipated maturity: 2005-2015+.