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.
Blend of the 2022 vintage
- 90 % Merlot
- 10 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2022 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 90 % merlot, 10 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2022 sheet
- 14 % vol.Alcohol
- 32 yrsVine age
- 79,500 bottlesProduction
Label
Winemaking
Hand harvest in small crates: Merlot from 6th to 17th September, Cabernet Franc on 23rd September. Yield: "the right balance". Densimetric sorting. Extraction by pump-overs. Small-capacity (plot-by-plot) unlined concrete vats, temperature-controlled. Maceration of 17 to 27 days. Selection: 100% first wine. Bottled at the château from 10th to 12th April 2024.
Ageing
New barrel, concrete vat and glass globe.
Terroir
Clay and clay-sand over an iron-rich clay subsoil.
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Texts and documents 2022
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Visuals
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