2022 Madame de Beaucaillou

The 2022 Madame De Beaucaillou (66% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 11% Petit Verdot) is brilliant, with a dense ruby/plum hue as well as powerful aromatics of crème de cassis, ripe black cherries, spicy wood, and smoky tobacco. This rich, medium to full-bodied, layered, concentrated beauty way over-delivers. Drink bottles over the coming decade or so.

The 2022 Madame de Beaucaillou has a fresh bouquet with a minerally black fruit aroma. It has fine delineation and is quite open. The palate is medium-bodied with a little more grip than I remember out of barrel. This is quite a powerful Madame that will require two or three years in bottle.

Intense and deeply colored, with lots of violets, fresh blue fruit, blackberries and minerals. Really flavorful, with precise tannins and lovely firmness without chewiness. Long and concentrated but fresh and energetic. 66% merlot, 23% cabernet sauvignon and 11% petit verdot. Drink from 2028.