97/100
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.
94/100
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.
97/100
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.
Robert Parker
94/100
The 2022 Berliquet offers up lovely aromas of raspberries, cherries, violets and pencil shaving, followed by a medium to full-bodied, lively and seamless palate that's dense and muscular, with rich tannin 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.
94/100
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.
Bordeaux
Vin fra Bordeaux spænder over et overvældende udvalg af smagsoplevelser og stilarter. Bordeaux, denne bemærkelsesværdige vinregion, ligger smukt ved Atlanterhavet i det vestlige Frankrig. Det er her, i Bordeaux, at vinproduktionen er mest omfattende i hele Frankrig, og de mere end 120.000 hektar vinmarker fortæller historien om Bordeauxs indflydelse på verdens vinverden. Herfra produceres de fleste varianter af vin - lige fra tør mousserende Cremant, milde rødvine, friske hvidvine, intense kraftfulde rødvine og søde dessertvine.
Med en årlig produktion på mere end 700 millioner flasker vin er Bordeaux-regionen en sand vinmagt. Og det er ikke kun kvantitet, men også kvalitet, der præger Bordeaux. Her findes ikke færre end 54 forskellige appellationer, hvoraf nogle er verdensberømte, mens andre er skjulte perler, der venter på at blive opdaget.
Druerne, som er hjertet og sjælen i Bordeaux-vine, er primært Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon og Cabernet Franc, suppleret med små mængder Petit Verdot, Carmenere og Malbec. Disse druesorter giver Bordeaux-vine deres karakteristiske smag og stil. Venstre bred af Gironde-floden er hjemsted for Cabernet Sauvignon-dominerede vine, som er kendt for deres struktur og styrke. På højre side af floden, hvor Merlot regerer, finder man bløde og fyldige vine med en umiddelbar charme.
Én af de mest berømte Bordeaux-appellationer er Médoc, der producerer de ikoniske Bordeaux-vine, der bærer navne som Château Margaux, Château Latour og Château Lafite Rothschild. Disse vine er skattede af samlere og kendere for deres evne til at ældes i årtier og udvikle komplekse smagsnuancer.
På højre bred af Gironde-floden finder man Saint-Émilion og Pomerol, der er kendt for deres Merlot-dominerede vine. Château Cheval Blanc og Château Pétrus er to af de mest eftertragtede ejendomme i Bordeaux, der producerer sublimt raffinerede vine.
Så uanset om du er en inkarneret vinentusiast eller blot nyder et godt glas vin fra Bordeaux fra tid til anden, er Bordeaux-regionen en ubestridelig destination. Den lange historie, de forskelligartede landskaber og det uendelige udvalg af vinoplevelser gør Bordeaux til et sted, der aldrig mister sin magi. Så næste gang du åbner en flaske vin fra Bordeaux, lad dig fordybe i denne regionale skat, der er skabt af passion, tradition og ekspertise. Bordeaux-vin er en verden i sig selv, og den er skabt til at nyde igen og igen.
