Château Le Bon Pasteur

5/1/2019 Jeb DUNNUCK JEB DUNNUCK (JEB DUNNUCK) : 91-93 / 100 The 2018 Château Le Bon Pasteur comes from the home estate of renowned oenologist Michel Rolland and is a Merlot-dominated blend (there’s normally a splash of Cabernet Franc) brought up in plenty of new barrels. This deep purple-colored beauty offers a medium to full-bodied, seamless, elegant style as well as classic Pomerol notes of ripe black and blue fruits, damp earth and chocolate. Slightly more elegant than normal, yet with beautiful purity and fine tannins, give bottles a 2-4 years bottle age and it should last for 15-20 years. 5/1/2019 Vinous VINOUS (ANTONIO GALLONI) : 88-90 / 100 The 2018 Le Bon Pasteur is a dark, potent Pomerol. Blackberry jam, chocolate, licorice, spice and tobacco add to an impression of virile power. This is an especially extracted, oaky style with a lot of impact, but less in the way of nuance or finesse. My impression is that Bon Pasteur needs an updating. There is just not much pleasure to be had here. Tasted two times. 4/24/2019 La Revue du Vin de France LA REVUE DU VIN DE FRANCE : 15,5-16,5 / 20 4/23/2019 The Wine Cellar Insider THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER (JEFF LEVE) : 93-95 / 100 Ripe black cherries, plums, flowers, licorice and chocolate permeate the aromatic character. Sensuous, silky, polished and concentrated with layers of fruit, licorice and cocoa, give this wine 5-7 years to develop even more of its intimate and sexy personality. The wine was made from blending 80% Merlot with 20% old vine Cabernet Franc. 4/23/2019 Wine Advocate WINE ADVOCATE (LISA PERROTTI-BROWN) : 92-94 / 100 Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2018 Bon Pasteur offers up expressive notions of baked red and black cherries, mulberries and warm blueberries with hints of licorice, chocolate box and menthol. The full-bodied palate has great freshness with firm, ripe, rounded tannins and bags of juicy fruit, finishing long with a minty kick. 4/12/2019 Jamessuckling.com JAMESSUCKLING.COM (JAMES SUCKLING) : 96-97 / 100 This is a wonderful Le Bon Pasteur with incredibly silky tannins that fill the mouth. It’s full-bodied yet ever so agile and bright. The tannins build at the end, as is the case in other top wines of the vintage. 4/8/2019 Quarin JEAN-MARC QUARIN (JEAN-MARC QUARIN) : 90 / 100 4/3/2019 Wine Spectator WINE SPECTATOR (JAMES MOLESWORTH) : 93-96 / 100 Intense, with kirsch, açaí berry and boysenberry fruit flavors rolling over one another, backed by bramble and anise notes on the grippy finish. Very solid. 4/1/2019 Decanter.com DECANTER.COM (JANE ANSON) : 91 / 100 This is very easy to love with a generous fruit structure combining blackberry with wisps of chocolate and damson. It might get tiring after a glass or so because this leans on the side of sweetness but still, though plentiful the tannins are so soft and air-brushed it’s hard not to admire. Drinking Window 2026 - 2038