In Bond Fine Wine. 2020 Château Meyney, Saint-Estephe, Bordeaux, France. Cru bourgeois • Red Bordeaux in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 94/100 (AG). Drinking window: 2025–2055. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Neal Martin (NM) — 91–93/100 · Vinous, 28/05/2021 · Drink 2025 - 2045
The 2020 Meyney has a lively, quite powerful nose delivering plenty of blackberry, boysenberry and briar scents, plus touches of freshly tilled loam and wilted iris flower; I appreciate how forthright this is. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannins and graphite-laced blackberry. Quite citric toward the finish, showing Pauillac-like pretentions. This is a classy Saint-Est'phe from Meyney…
Jeb Dunnuck (JD) — 91–93/100 · JebDunnuck.com, 25/05/2021
Another wine worth seeking out, the 2020 Chateau Meyney shows the fresh, focused, yet also ripe style of the vintage nicely. Offering lots of pure cassis and black cherry fruits as well as tobacco and classy oak, it's medium to full-bodied and has a pretty, elegant texture, plenty of mid-palate depth, and ripe yet certainly present and firmer tannins. I love the overall classic vibe as well as it…
James Suckling (JS) — 93–94/100 · JamesSuckling.com, 23/05/2021
A firm, intense red Bordeaux with blackcurrants and purple fruit, as well as hints of walnuts and some sweet tobacco. It's full-bodied and dense with layers of fruit and tannins.