Château Berliquet Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé 2022 i trækasse

Jeb Dunnuck

A richer, darker-fruited wine than its big brother Canon, the 2022 Château Berliquet comes from slightly more clay soils and is always a bigger, broader wine, especially when compared to Canon and its neighbors on the upper plateau. It offers more currant and black cherry fruit as well as scorched earth, chocolate, and truffly aromas and flavors that gain persistence and intensity with time in the glass. These carry to a rich, full-bodied Saint-Emilion that has a beautifully layered mouthfeel, plenty of mid-palate depth, and a great finish. The level of purity and precision here is exceptional. The 2022 is 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc, from a mix of clay and limestone soils on the upper plateau, that spent 16 months in 44% new French oak, with 8% in amphora. It will evolve nicely over the coming 20-25 years.

Tastingbook.com

Markus del Monego MW

Jean-Marc Quarin

Decanter

Juicy, supple, delicate and refined with a lovely texture and acidity that grips the mouth and says 'drink me'. Crystalline cool blue fruit, pure and well defined, this is pulsing with life, vibrant and present. Powerful and filling with a generous core, playful and friendly but complex and concentrated too. Confident with bite and appealing chalkiness at the finish. Clean and pure, so easy to enjoy still with structure and balance and a salty stone minerality on the finish. In organic conversion. Yield of 45hl/ha.

Falstaff

Dark ruby garnet, opaque core, violet reflections. delicate edge brightening. Inviting cherry fruit, fine precious wood spice, orange zest, mineral touch. Juicy, ripe heart cherries on the palate, good freshness, shows tension and length, animating style.

Jane Anson

Dark damson colour, beautiful sense of upliflt and freshness, with mint leaf, sage, wild rosemary, cassis fruits. Slate texture to the wine here, feels carved out and crafted, with edges of austerity that constrict the cassis and raspberry fruit. 44% new oak, 8 amphoras (around 10% of overall), the rest in one year old barrel, 45hl/h yield. Great stuff.

Tim Atkin

Bettane et Desseauve

Terre de Vins

Robert Parker

The 2022 Berliquet is brilliant, bursting with aromas of plums, wild berries and lilac, followed by a medium to full-bodied, concentrated and vibrant palate that's deep and mineral. It's likely to be another of the vintage's more attractive en primeur proportions. This estate just goes from strength to strength—and that's before its new winery has been constructed! One of the most significant changes has been opting to retain higher canopies, which means that the fruiting zone of rows planted along the slope are now shaded, preserving freshness.

Matthew Jukes

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

Flowers, crushed stones, espresso, and red pit fruits create the nose. On the palate, the wine is expressive, silky, long, and deep, with intensity, purity and elegance, finishing with salty-chocolate, black, red and white cherries, plums and a dash of cocoa. The wine leaves you with refined, soft, polished edge in the finish. The wine blends 65% Merlot with 35% Cabernet Franc, 14.5% ABV, 3.55 pH. Drink from 2026-2048.

Alexandre Ma

In Château Berliquet 2022, I caught a glimpse of Château Canon 2022 in its shadow. The rich clay imbues the wine with a profound structure that beautifully complements the limestone's innate salinity. Swirling the glass, the aromas of sour plum and juicy yellow plum fill the air, wiping away any trace of the dryness characteristic of the 2022 vintage. In 2020, I described Château Berliquet as a "wild horse in captivity." Now, after two years of cultivating, it has found its rhythm and transformed into "a magnificent stallion parading in dressage". Château Berliquet has a bright and promising future.