Bouchard Pere & Fils Beaune Greves Vigne de l'Enfant Jesus Premier Cru 2017

Professional Ratings

• 94 Wine Enthusiast

  This tight wine is firm with tannins and still very young. With a backdrop of dense black fruits and acidity, its potential is considerable. With this promise and richness, the wine needs aging. Drink from 2024.

• 92 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2017 Beaune 1er Cru Les Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jesus is showing well, wafting from the glass with aromas of smoky cherry and blackberry fruit that mingle with nuances of incense, spices and baking chocolate. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, velvety and supple, with a nicely concentrated core of sapid fruit, succulent acids and quite a long, harmonious finish. This has come together very nicely since I tasted it from barrel in early December.
• 92 James Suckling
  A refined nose for Beaune with raspberry pastry and red cherries with a violet-flower edge. The palate has delicate and fine tannins with great structural integrity. The length and balance are very convincing. Approachable red fruit at the finish. Drink on release or hold.
  Barrel Sample: 91-92
• 92 Wine & Spirits

  This 9.7-acre monopole at the center of the Grèves premier cru was the property of the Carmelite order until church properties were sold off after the French Revolution. The Bouchard family purchased the vineyard in 1791 and its wine remains one of the signatures of the domaine. It’s treated like a grand cru, with 50 percent new oak in top vintages, and in 2017 the oak and fruit are finely married, destined to evolve together for years in bottle. The dark cherry fruit is intensely floral, girded by gingery spice in the tannins, tight, juicy and cool.

• 92 Wine Spectator

  Lush and juicy, this red delivers plum, black cherry, sweet spice and toasty oak flavors on a soft frame. Dense, showing fine balance and length. Drink now through 2030.

• 91 Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
  COMMENTARY: One of the best parcels in Beaune Grèves, the Vigne de L'Enfant Jésus Beaune-Grèves has consistently produced one of Beaune's top wines. The 2017 vintage is picture-perfect. TASTING NOTES: This wine delivers persistent red fruit aromas and flavors that is alluring as it captures the palate with the essence of Burgundy. Its aromas and flavors are open knit and offer plenty of ripe fruit that would pair well with nicely with a mildly-seasoned veal roast. (Tasted: March 14, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
• 90 Jasper Morris

  Light to medium deep purple with attractive aromatics. This builds well to the back of the palate, with a good mix of sweet fruit and some savoury aspects, along with perhaps a hint of volatility.