Saint-Émilion · vintage 2022
Clos Fourtet 2022
Ageing potentialWonderful length of flavour, very long ageing potential predicted.
Why this vintage
- 99/100 from Vinousand 6 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2022 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionThe extreme drought was absorbed by the clays: a sun-driven concentration, but without the expected harshness.
- Ageing potentialWonderful length of flavour, very long ageing potential predicted.
- Limited production55 000 bottles of this vintage.
Critic scores
- Vinous99
- Jeb Dunnuck98
- Decanter98
- James Suckling97
- Wine Enthusiast96
- Wine Spectator96
- Wine Advocate95
The 2022 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 97/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: The extreme drought was absorbed by the clays: a sun-driven concentration, but without the expected harshness.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
A garnet hue with bright purple glints. Complex, intense aromas, resulting from very good ripeness in the grapes without any exotic character. A fresh, full and elegant entry, underpinned by dense, spherical and creamy tannins.
Blend of the 2022 vintage
- 90 % Merlot
- 7 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 3 % Cabernet Franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2022 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with merlot, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2022 sheet
- 14.5 % vol.Alcohol
- 36 hl/haYield
- 35 yrsVine age
- 55,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Harvest from 9th to 27th September 2022. Fermentation of whole uncrushed berries in 25 small-capacity temperature-controlled stainless steel vats; extraction via manual pigeage; vatting period lasting 21 to 28 days. Malo-lactic fermentation in vat, amphoras and barrels. Gentle extractions were carried out through manual pigeages and carefully-controlled temperatures.
Ageing
40% new barrels - 58% second-fill barrels - 2% amphoras - 14 to 18 months' ageing in underground rock cellars.
Terroir
Clay-limestone soils.
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Texts and documents 2022
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 28, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.