2009 Grand Mayne 6 Pack

94 POINTS

Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast

A ripe wine, very open and smooth. The tannins are dark, but it is the fruit—blackberry and red plums—that comes right through. Look beneath this charm, and there is also a wine with more structure, perfumed and ageworthy.

94 POINTS

Neal Martin - Vinous

The 2009 Grand Mayne has an opulent bouquet with well defined kirsch and red plum aromas, hints of cough candy emerge with time. It remains focused and precise. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, layers of candied red fruit laced with orange peel and marmalade. It builds beautifully towards the finish. Excellent. Tasted at the Grand Mayne vertical at the property.

93 POINTS

Robert Parker - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

I enjoy this wine in nearly every vintage (the 1998 was one of my all-time favorites), and while the 2009 may not be better than the 1998, it is an impressive effort. Moreover, it represents a great value in top-notch Bordeaux. Its opaque purple color is followed by plenty of blueberry, boysenberry, and raspberry fruit notes intermixed with subtle hints of graphite and oak. The wine possesses ripe tannin, full-bodied power, admirable purity, and impressive amounts of glycerin and sweetness from its high ripeness (but not over-ripeness) in the finish. Consume it over the next 15+ years. (Tasted three times.)

93 POINTS

Robert Parker - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Another St.-Emilion smart buy for consumers, Grand-Mayne has made a number of top wines (except for a short period when they had some TCA issues). This is a full-throttle effort filled with blueberry and black raspberry fruit, perhaps slightly more oak than oakaphobes would prefer, but a full-bodied, concentrated, ageworthy style. Sweet tannin, low acidity and ripe fruit suggest this well-made St.-Emilion should drink nicely for 15-20 years.

91 POINTS

Wine Spectator

Very dark, with almost heady blueberry and plum confiture flavors at the core, wrapped with extra cassis and boysenberry notes. Long and liberally laced with toast and mocha, with a licorice snap edge on the finish.

Julia Harding MW - JancisRobinson.com

Inky core. Dark, pure and restrained fruit on the nose with some cedary freshness. Very sweet fruit but allied with upright tannins, which increase the freshness. Good finish – juicy but becoming nicely dry at the very end. Score: 17/NaN

Jancis Robinson

Thick and very ripe. Rather drying finish. But some svelteness of texture. Score: 15/20

Jancis Robinson

Very little nose. Thick and sweet start and then quite painfully concentrated tannins and acid. Drying finish. Really not much fun – a bit too concentrated? Hint of floral scent on the finish. Score: 16/NaN