Château Berliquet 2022 Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé

Jeb Dunnuck
(94-96)/100 punten 
Candied cherries, tapenade, violets, and floral notes all emerge from the 2022 Château Berliquet, a medium to full-bodied, seamless Saint-Emilion that brings plenty of ripeness while staying nicely balanced, light on its feet, and elegant. Based on 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc, from yields of 31.2 hectoliter per hectare, it will spend 16 months in 44% new French oak, with a portion of the blend aged in amphora. This isn't the most powerful or opulent wine in the vintage, but it's as seamless and graceful as they come. 

Jeff Leve (The Wine Cellar Insider)
(94-96)/100 punten
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.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
(94-95)/100 punten
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. 

Decanter
94/100 punten
 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
94/100 punten
Dark ruby garnet, opaque core, purple reflections. Delicate rim brightening. Inviting cherry fruit, fine wood savouriness, orange zest, mineral touch. Juicy, ripe cherries also on the palate, good freshness, shows tension and length, animating style. 

The Wine Independent (Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW)
(93-95)/100 punten
The 2022 Berliquet, 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc with a yield of 45 hl/ha, is aging in 44% new oak barrels. Deep garnet-purple in color, it flies out of the glass with notes of lilacs, red roses, and Sichuan pepper, leading to a core of redcurrant jelly, black raspberries, and wild blueberries plus a waft of truffles. The full-bodied palate is rich and opulent, with loads of bright red berry sparks and a lively backbone, finishing on a lingering mineral note. pH 3.55. 

James Suckling
(93-94)/100 punten
Lots of dark and crushed stones with blackberries and black olives. Dark earth. Full-bodied and more concentrated with very intense fruit and chewy tannins. Velvety and slightly rough, but all there.

Jancis Robinson
17/20 punten
Very deep crimson. Rich, sweet and burly compared with the Canon but still with purity. Such polish! Clean and fresh. Sleekissimo. 

Jane Anson (Inside Bordeaux)
94/100 punten
Dark damson colour, beautiful sense of uplift 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. 

Neal Martin (Vinous)
(92-94)/100 punten
The 2022 Berliquet was picked from 29 August to 14 September and matured in 44% new oak. The wood is a little more prominent on the nose than the Canon, with black cherries, bilberry and light oyster shell scents. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannins. This is a juicy Berliquet that probably belies the structure underneath. There's more red fruit toward the finish, with a touch of pepper on the aftertaste. 

Weinwisser
18,5/20 punten
Verspieltes rotbeeriges Bouquet, frisches Himbeermark, Schattenmorellensaft, erotisches Veilchenparfüm und Walderdbeerkonfitüre. Am komplexen Gaumen mit seidiger Textur, saftiger Extraktfülle, stützender Rasse und trainiertem Körper. Im gebündelten aromatischen Finale ein Feuerwerk von roten Früchten, helles Edelholz, tiefschürfende Terroirwürze und erhabene Adstringenz. Der stößt ein neues Zeitalter auf, ich habe diesen Wein noch nie so gut Primeur verkostet. Gehört auf jede Einkaufsliste! 

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