Why this vintage
- 95/100 from James Sucklingand 6 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2022 vintage in Saint-EstèpheThree heatwaves and extreme drought gave, against all odds, wines of exceptional concentration without harshness — the great sun-drenched year.
Critic scores
- James Suckling95
- Vinous94
- Jeb Dunnuck94
- Wine Enthusiast94
- Wine Advocate93
- Decanter93
- Wine Spectator92
The 2022 vintage in Saint-Estèphe
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 Saint-Estèphe. 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
Luscious, accomplished, deep, rare, grandiose.
Blend of the 2022 vintage
- 58 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 29 % Merlot
- 13 % Petit Verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2022 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2022 sheet
- 13.5 % vol.Alcohol
- 37 hl/haYield
Winemaking
Harvest: Merlot, 14/09 → 20/09; Cabernet Sauvignon, 21/09 → 05/10; Petit Verdot, 22/09. Double-sorting grape harvest (in the vineyard and in the cellar). Gentle vinification adapted to each tank, to extract the best.
Ageing
18 months of ageing. French oak barrels.
Terroir
Cabernet Sauvignon draws on a perfectly drained terroir of siliceous gravels and, together with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, gives rise to a wine that is ample, fleshy and structured. At maturity it develops the inimitable charm of the great Saint-Estèphes. Across the estate's 43 hectares, the vines, averaging 40 years of age, are made up of Cabernet Sauvignon (61%), Merlot (26%), Cabernet Franc (3%) and Petit Verdot (10%). Besides the Garonne gravels of which it is composed, the vineyard has one distinctive feature: a 3-metre-thick seam of blue clay buried in the subsoil, also found at Pétrus.
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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.