2022 Petit Village
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The 2022 Petit-Village is ripe and more exotic on the nose compared to its peers, well defined, with touches of vanilla and sage coming through with time. The palate is medium-bodied with svelte tannins matched with well judged acidity. Very good structure, focused with a harmonious finish, this gets better and better with acquaintance. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting in London.
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James Suckling
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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The 2022 Château Petit-Village is 70% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon, offering red fruits, spice, and graphite alongside beautifully integrated oak. Medium to full-bodied, it has elegant floral notes, seamless purity, and ultra-fine tannins. Not massive, but wonderfully refined, it shares a stylistic similarity with Conseillante but leans more into red fruits. Aged for 15 months in 45% new oak barrels, this will drink well for 30+ years.
The 2022 Petit-Village has retained a ripe and slightly candied bouquet, with violets and peony aromas infusing the black fruit upfront. It's a little "glossy" in style compared to its peers. The palate is medium-bodied and perhaps less corpulent than out of barrel, with grainy tannins, veins of dark chocolate and mint chip and a sweet finish. It's not bad, although it does not quite deliver the complexity this château is capable of.
Increasingly impressed with this wine over recent vintages, heavy spice and smoked earth closes things down a little, but there are plenty of cassis and pomegranate fruits, enjoyable. 45% new oak, 5% of 500l oak casks, 30hl/h yield, final year in organic conversion.
About the producer
Positioned at the heart of the Pomerol appellation, this château comprises a single 10.5-hectare plot of vines, with one of the highest proportions of Cabernet Sauvignon in the region.