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Monbousquet 2016

St Emilion, Grand Cru Classé

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Tasting Notes

The 2016 Monbousquet is gorgeous. Rich, ample and super-expressive, the 2016 offers terrific resonance and textural depth. Super-ripe dark cherry, plum, mocha, espresso and spice abound. The 2016 has all the richness that has always showed from barrel, but with an extra kick of freshness and aromatic lift. The 2016 has certainly come together beautifully over the course of its aging. There is a lot to like in this voluptuous, immediate Saint-Émilion.

Score: 92

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2019-2026 01 January 2019

Black cherry, plum, bittersweet chocolate, espresso and spice infuse the 2016 Monbousquet. Many of the wines in the Perse stable are made in a less extracted style than in the past. Monbousquet appears to be the exception. This is an especially pushed, voluptuous style.

Score: 88 - 90

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com 25 April 2017

The 2016 Monbousquet has an attractive bouquet of black cherry, blueberry and light violet aromas, the new oak nicely integrated. The palate is medium-bodied and quite voluminous in the mouth, displaying grainy tannins and tarry black fruit, dark chocolate and cedar toward the finish. Give this four to five years in bottle.

Score: 91

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2023-2038 01 January 2019

The 2016 Monbousquet is a blend of 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon cropped at 38 hectoliters per hectare at 14.46% alcohol. It was picked between 6-11 October and matured in 70% new oak, the remainder one-year-old barrels. It offers an opulent but well defined bouquet of black cherries, violets and fresh fig, a little tight initially but soon unfolding in the glass. The palate is quite rich and generous on the opening with layers of blackberry and raspberry laced with graphite and a pinch of cracked black pepper. It tapers in a little towards the finish, completing a bold and assertive Monbousquet that is likely to require four or five years in bottle in order to soften those tannins. Interestingly, the sample tasted at Pavie was a little more flamboyant than the more classically styled one that I tasted elsewhere and preferred.

Score: 90 - 92

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2022-2045 28 April 2017

Dark and chunky with black fruits. Compacted fruit and a little hot on the spiced finish.

Score: 90 - 92

Albany Vintners, - 19 April 2017

Very dark purple. Rich, red fruits taken to the limit. Raspberry jam initially but rescued by freshness on the end. Great drama and a bit of alcohol on the end. Stylistically Perse rather than St-Émilion but well-done tarry end. 14.6%

Score: 17

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2025-2040 13 April 2017

This is packed with fig, boysenberry and raspberry fruit flavors that keep cascading over one another while enticing anise and plum cake notes fill in throughout. Gorgeous mouthfeel, with a creamy, rounded edge, yet never giving up a generally racy and focused feel.

Score: 93 - 96

James Molesworth, Wine Spectator 06 April 2017

This is very layered and firm with beautiful tannins and richness. Full-bodied, tight and spicy with lovely depth. Refined and pretty.

Score: 94 - 95

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com 04 April 2017