In Bond Fine Wine. 2019 Château Meyney, Saint-Estephe, Bordeaux, France. Cru bourgeois • Red Bordeaux in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 95/100 (NM). Drinking window: 2023+. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
James Suckling (JS) — 94/100 · JamesSuckling.com, 31/01/2022 · Drink 2023+
Notes of ripe blackcurrants and blackberries, vanilla, licorice and dark chocolate with touches of earthiness and nutmeg-like spice. Medium-bodied with ripe, velvety tannins and delicious fruit. Polished and refined. Try after 2023.
Jane Anson (JA) — 93/100 · Decanter.com, 30/05/2020 · Drink 2025 - 2038
One of the wines I use as a marker of how good the vintage is in St Est'phe, because it isn't classified but is in a brilliant location right next door to Montrose. And this is good, extremely concentrated, pure cassis and bilberry flavours, tons of tannins, clear austerity and fairly high acidity as I am getting in a lot of these 2019s. Not the same luscious character as 2018, but in many ways t…
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW (LPB) — 90–92/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 18/06/2020
Deep purple-black in color, the 2019 Meyney strides confidently out of the glass with classic notes of cassis, warm plums and baked blackberries plus hints of cedar chest, bay leaves, pencil lead and clove oil plus a waft of underbrush. The medium to full-bodied palate has a generous core of ripe black fruits with a slight touch of oak poking through and a firm backbone of ripe, grainy tannins, f…