VINTAGE

2022

Features

Vinification
Cold maceration prior to
slow fermentation

Grape varieties
Merlot : 70%
Cabernet Franc : 24%
Malbec : 6%

Elevage
One year old barrels of French oak

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2022

Vintage history

We are proud to present our 2022 vintage, a vintage considered among the finest in Bordeaux.

For many years, we have worked towards helping our vineyard develop a strong natural resilience. In 2022, the vines’ excellent health allowed them to fully embrace a particularly hot, dry, and sunny summer.

The result is a generous and seductive wine, with vibrant aromas of red and black fruits. Full and ample on the palate yet never heavy,
it is lifted by the beautiful presence of Cabernet Francs, delightfully subtle and refined.

With strong ageing potential, this wine, now beginning to soften and settle, will be particularly enjoyable from 2026 onwards. Cheers!

James Suckling – 90/100

Currants, vanilla and pine cones on the nose of this medium-bodied red. It’s fruity, fragrant and youthful, with crunchy tannins. Merlot, cabernet franc and malbec. From organically grown grapes. Drink now or hold.

Jancis Robinson

Beautifully fragrant blackberry fruit that also smells a little of cherries and strawberries and old-fashioned pencils on the nose, and then draws in on the palate, youth curling it into the rigid lines of those cedar-and-graphite pencils. The fruit on the palate is much tighter, much more tannic – the ripeness of the nose retrenched to elderberry and sloe-berry, so dark and black-blue that you can barely see your hand in front of your face. Black olive, cedar and eucalyptus. Astringent tannins, still terse with testy newness.
Just a baby, but all the components are there, beautifully laid out. Wait.

Gilbert & Gaillard

Moderately deep hue, ruby-brown glints. Nose marked by undergrowth, spice and jammy red and black fruits. The palate is dense, with controlled tannins. Fruit integrates neatly with a discreet bitter note on the finish. Clear character.

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