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93
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Taster #9015
· Mar 1, 2025
90/100
Supple, rich, ripe, and creamy, this 100% Merlot from Jean-Luc Thunevin is already a treat in your glass, that is, if you are like me and enjoy a lusty glass of chocolatey, black cherries with a sliver of fig, and licorice in the finish. Drink from 2025-2033.
2022 vintage
Taster #4184
· Dec 21, 2021
89/100
In a modern style. Quite heavily extracted, big alcohol, and somewhat over oaked. Big and bold to be sure.
2010 vintage
Taster #4541
· Oct 22, 2021
90/100
At Tino’s for the parent social. Delicious
2011 vintage
Taster #4120
· Sep 26, 2021
89/100
sadly, same score as 3 yrs ago. Just kinda flat. We enjoyed the 2009 more.
2010 vintage
Taster #7130
· May 24, 2021
90/100
Fully mature, drink soon.
2010 vintage
Taster #4541
· Apr 11, 2021
90/100
A tasty wine, with notes of bright red fruit, currants, cedar and coffee. A delicious pairing with the herbal lamb chops. Not as good a pairing with the slow-roasted duck. (Wish I had read my prior notes about the roast chicken). Anyway, it is a great wine. Ready to drink. But with meat and not poultry.
2011 vintage
Taster #7130
· Jan 25, 2021
90/100
Much better than the previous bottle from the same case. I got these wines last year and I'm not sure how the storage was, and there is clearly bottle variation going on here. Drink soon anyway.
2010 vintage
Taster #7130
· Jul 12, 2020
88/100
Already an old wine. Still good, needs air, drink soon!
2010 vintage
Taster #6709
· Feb 22, 2020
91/100
Really mellow and smooth - lovely wine.
2010 vintage
Taster #4541
· May 26, 2019
90/100
5/26/2019. 90. Coravin taste to see if we wanted to buy more while on sale for $12 / bottle (with free shipping). Original retail was $30. Better with a few minutes in the glass, as the tannins became stronger, and with bright red fruit, currants, cedar and coffee. (I didn’t get the chocolate of other vintages) A terrible pairing with our roast, herbal poussin chicken (so we switched to Fougas Maldoror 2000) but good on its own or with lamb, …
2011 vintage
Taster #4120
· Nov 25, 2018
89/100
Same score as last year, inoffensive, but not particularly exciting. unfairly followed a mature Pomerol
2010 vintage
Taster #4120
· Dec 12, 2017
89/100
good week night bordeaux
2010 vintage
Taster #6709
· Mar 16, 2017
90/100
Lovely - great wine
2010 vintage
Taster #7130
· Jan 28, 2017
89/100
Same as previous bottle. Drink soon.
2010 vintage
Taster #7130
· Jan 8, 2017
89/100
I was surprised to find that this is more mature than the 2009 vintage. It has more body also, but the tertiary flavours are all the way from bouquet through end. Needs some air, better with food, dink now.
2010 vintage
Taster #8877
· Oct 20, 2016
Entered in error
2011 vintage
Taster #6442
· Mar 8, 2016
87/100
First night was pretty bad, like licking a piece of wood. Tried on night two and significantly better. Oak more integrated, more fruit. Very round and soft but fairly straightforward. Alcohol noticeable and a bit out of balance. This really needs time in the air to be drinkable but hard to tell if it get much better with time. 87 based on second night.
2010 vintage
Taster #2503
· Apr 26, 2015
91/100
Needs a touch more time. Great bordeaux for Americans : )
2010 vintage
Taster #6312
· Jul 20, 2014
90/100
A very a competent wine produced to mature early and drink well from now and maybe 5 years. Since it rather tight and complex it needs lots of airing. Even opening 24 hours ahead and decanting. We had it maturing from an afternoon tasting to a dinner over until the next day. It was coming to its full right after 20 or so hours. Lots of fruit, cherry, liquorice on the nose and pencil and classic cab on the pallet. …
2010 vintage
Taster #0008
· Jun 21, 2014
85/100
No. Just no.
2010 vintage
Taster #4184
· Nov 19, 2013
92/100
This wine drinks much differently with air. It is tight out of the bottle, with high acid, and a balance issue, though still tasty. Without air it drinks like many $10 Argentine Cabernet Sauvignon offerings. With several hours of air this 'Bad Boy' opens into a completely different wine. It features great texture, awesome balance and grip, and a long, full finish. Air morphs it into a full-bodied wine, of awesome weight, and great mouthfeel with power and depth to …
2010 vintage
Taster #4294
· Sep 26, 2013
90/100
A step-up in structure from the 2010, with a bit more backbone and acid, but not quite the voluptuous fruit of the '09. It was almost as if Thunevin was reading the vintage harvest reports. Still, though, a new world Bordeaux.
2010 vintage
Taster #2793
· Jun 9, 2013
93/100
grt qpr
2010 vintage
Taster #9015
· Apr 20, 2012
89/100
Jean Luc Thunevin’s 100% Merlot, eponymous wine reached 14.5% alcohol. Aged in 50% new oak, the wine offers coffee, vanilla and black cherry scents, soft tannins and should deliver a fun, chocolate and black raspberry-filled finish on release. 88-90 Pts
2011 vintage
Taster #9015
· Apr 22, 2011
89/100
Bad Boy is filled with ripe jammy black fruit, licorice, round textures and chocolate covered plums. 88-90 Pts
2010 vintage
Taster #4899
· Apr 3, 2011
91/100
2010 Bordeaux En Primeur; 4/3/2011-4/4/2011 (Bordeaux) : Cassis, blackberries, licorice, excellent concentration, very silky 90-92 pts.
2010 vintage