Haut-Médoc · vintage 2022
Château La Lagune 2022
Ageing potential> 20 years
Why this vintage
- 95/100 from James Sucklingand 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2022 vintage in Haut-MédocThree heatwaves and extreme drought gave, against all odds, wines of exceptional concentration without harshness — the great sun-drenched year.
- Ageing potential> 20 years
Critic scores
- James Suckling95
- Jeb Dunnuck94
- Wine Advocate93
- Vinous92
The 2022 vintage in Haut-Médoc
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 Haut-Médoc. 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
Black fruit dominates the nose and the palate, with floral notes of peony enriching the finish. The attack is frank and immediately offers a fine density on the palate, carried by a fine grain of tannin. A touch of acidity lengthens the finish and makes it savoury. A balance that gives a very special sapidity to this vintage.
Blend of the 2022 vintage
- 52 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 45 % Merlot
- 3 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2022 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 60 % cabernet sauvignon, 30 % merlot, 10 % petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2022 sheet
- 13.7 % vol.Alcohol
Winemaking
After a very meticulous triple manual sorting, completed by an optical sorting, the most beautiful berries are delicately sent to the vats for plot-by-plot vinification. The extraction of tannins and anthocyanins is carefully measured to obtain the most elegant wines. The final blend is made during ageing with the wines from the best plots.
Ageing
Château La Lagune is aged in French oak barrels, 50% of which are renewed every year. The wines are racked several times during their maturation, in order to eliminate the heavy lees and favour maturation on fine lees.
Terroir
The finesse of the Graves and the strength of the Médoc. The terroir of La Lagune is considered by the famous geologist René Pijassou as «the Médoc island model». The light gravel (pink, yellow and white quartz, calcite, agates) and silica diffuse the sunlight and help to give the Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot the grace, balance and finesse that characterise the wines of La Lagune.
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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.