The 2022 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 98/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Three heatwaves and extreme drought gave, against all odds, wines of exceptional concentration without harshness — the great sun-drenched year.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. 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.
The vintage
Harvest dates: Merlot from September 6th to 16th of 2022, Cabernet Sauvignon from September 16th to 26th of 2022.
Blend of the 2022 vintage
- 87 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 13 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2022 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, petit verdot, cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2022 sheet
- 13.9 % vol.Alcohol
- 45 hl/haYield
Winemaking
Intra-Plot vinification. 24 days of maceration at 20°C, with the addition of neutral gas to stimulate gentle movements, for a soft and regular extraction. Vertical pressing to bring a special care to the presses.
Ageing
16 months: 40% in new oak barrels, 40% in barrels of one wine, 20% in ovoid concrete tanks and amphorae.
Terroir
The vineyard covers 30 hectares, half of which are located around the property, adjoining Château Latour. The other part of the vineyard is on the Bages plateau, in the south of Pauillac. The estate's plots are located in 2 areas, one made up of deep gravels and the other of clay-limestone and chalky limestone. This type of soil gives the wine its power and its mineral character. A large part of its fine deep-gravel land overlooks the Gironde estuary. These gravels were carried down by the river from the Pyrenees during the Quaternary era. They rest on a limestone bedrock.
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Texts and documents 2022
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Visuals
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