2018 Clos de Bouard 6 Pack

93 POINTS

James Suckling

What a beautiful wine with fantastic, polished tannins and beautiful fruit. This tastes like pure St.-Emilion, but it’s from Montagne. Medium-to full-bodied, very racy and beautiful. Points: 93-94

92 POINTS

Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast

Big tannins and rich, succulent black fruits give a wine that is rich, solid and immensely concentrated. It is a blockbuster wine, dense and full of the ripest black fruits and promising a long aging. Drink from 2024.

92 POINTS

Jane Anson - Decanter

There is clear concentration here, a wine that has ripe black fruits and the kind of limestone minerality that makes for a mouthwatering finish that has sapidity and salinity without heading too far towards austerity. Another enjoyable vintage from Coralie de Boüard.

92 POINTS

Jane Anson - Decanter

Far greater depth of fruit than the Dame de Boüard, with juice running through the palate, and careful layering of blackberry and cassis fruits against mouthwatering slate texture that speaks to the limestone soils. A pretty gourmet wine also, with chocolate and damson nots. Good value.

92 POINTS

James Suckling

Dark-berry, violet, black-tea and cedar aromas. Hint of oyster shell, too. It’s medium-bodied with firm, fine-grained tannins. Sleek and refined. Try from 2024.

91 POINTS

Neal Martin - Vinous

The 2018 Clos de Boüard has a generous, ripe bouquet of blackberry, boysenberry and light violet aromas that all gain intensity with aeration. The palate is ripe and quite extracted on the entry. A powerful Montagne Saint-Émilion with grippy tannins, though it needs a little more amplitude toward the finish, which feels strict and linear. It does open up with aeration and should come around with 2–3 years in bottle.

91 POINTS

Antonio Galloni MW - Vinous

The 2018 Clos de Boüard is a bold, punchy wine. Succulent dark cherry, chocolate, spice, new leather, licorice, menthol and new oak are all kicked up in this juicy wine from Montagne Saint-Émilion. Readers will find a big, full wine built on textural richness. The oak is maybe just a bit much, but time will help address at least some of that. The 2018 has really come together nicely during élevage.

Wine Spectator

Bright plum and bitter cherry fruit is laced with a flash of anise. Reveals a singed wood echo on the finish. Score range: 88-91