91+ John Gilman - View from the Cellar

"The 2011 Vieilles Vignes bottling was raised in thirty-five percent new wood this year, which is customary these days chez Bachelet. The superb bouquet is pure and fairly reserved, delivering scents of cassis, black cherries, incipient notes of the meatiness to come, French roast, black minerality and just a touch of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very suave and pure on the attack, with a fine core, excellent focus and balance, fine-grained tannins and a very long, primary and classy finish. This will be a very elegant vintage of the Bachelet Vieilles Vignes bottling when it has reached its apogee. 2019-2040."

89-91 Allen Meadows - Burghound

"Here too there is a touch of wood spice to the compositionally similar if more complex nose. There is excellent underlying tension to the delicious and solidly complex flavors that possess very ripe if firm tannins that impart a slightly chewy texture to the serious but not particularly rustic finish. This is an entirely admirable villages and worth a look."