The Story
A distinguished Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé with aromas of blackberry, black cherry, plum, violet, graphite, and subtle spice. Silky tannins, vibrant freshness, and refined minerality create an elegant Bordeaux with remarkable depth and outstanding aging potential.
Food Pairing: Pair with beef Wellington, roast lamb, duck breast, venison, truffle dishes, aged Comté, or wild mushroom risotto.
97 Points - 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-Émilion 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.
94 Points - 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.
94 Points - James Suckling
Aromatic and fresh with sandalwood and dark fruit as well as bark and mushrooms. Medium-bodied with creamy tannins and a savory finish. Juicy is the word.
94 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Berliquet offers up lovely aromas of raspberries, cherries, violets and pencil shavings, followed by a medium- to full-bodied, lively and seamless palate that's dense and muscular, with rich tannins and a mineral finish. As readers will remember, this is an estate on the rise, with changes including opting to retain higher canopies, which means that the fruiting zone of rows planted along the slope are now shaded, preserving freshness.
Description
A distinguished Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé with aromas of blackberry, black cherry, plum, violet, graphite, and subtle spice. Silky tannins, vibrant freshness, and refined minerality create an elegant Bordeaux with remarkable depth and outstanding aging potential.
Food Pairing: Pair with beef Wellington, roast lamb, duck breast, venison, truffle dishes, aged Comté, or wild mushroom risotto.
97 Points - 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-Émilion 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.
94 Points - 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.
94 Points - James Suckling
Aromatic and fresh with sandalwood and dark fruit as well as bark and mushrooms. Medium-bodied with creamy tannins and a savory finish. Juicy is the word.
94 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Berliquet offers up lovely aromas of raspberries, cherries, violets and pencil shavings, followed by a medium- to full-bodied, lively and seamless palate that's dense and muscular, with rich tannins and a mineral finish. As readers will remember, this is an estate on the rise, with changes including opting to retain higher canopies, which means that the fruiting zone of rows planted along the slope are now shaded, preserving freshness.
