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Château La Grave Pomerol With perhaps the finest light gravel soil in Pomerol, this historic vineyard was acquired by Christian Moueix in 1971. Intriguingly, that same gravelly thread passes through Cheval Blanc and Figeac. If Château Lagrange was redolent of summer pudding on the nose then La Grave’s perfume was created by a masterchef of the dish… Here the fruit is of deepest ruby red, mouth-watering (can a nose be more mouth-watering? Well, yes.) The palate offers that hallmark silken, supple density but more weighty, almost meaty in 2022 with an extracted undertow that is deeply serious. This is a lovely La Grave, a worthy partner to that most glorious trio of 2018, 2019, 2020. Exclusive to Corney & Barrow in the UK
Corney & Barrow Score 17.5
Recommended drinking from 2027 - 2035
£495/CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
£247.50/CASE OF 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
£505/CASE OF 6 MAGNUMS, IN BOND UK
£252.50/CASE OF 3 MAGNUMS, IN BOND UK
£210/CASE OF 1 DOUBLE MAGNUM, IN BOND UK
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We originally offered this last year as a substitute for Barrail du Blanc and it was so good again in 2022 that we had to buy it. Part of the Château Laroque estate and immediate neighbour to the compelling Château Rocheyron of Peter Sisseck, this sits on clay-limestone soil that appears to have shrugged off the torrid conditions of the growing season. Here the nose is more high-flown, with piercingly fresh red fruit. The palate is almost liquorous in its sweetness, with an elegant succulence, a dark structure and fine length. The antithesis to Barrail du Blanc in 2022, the perfect foil indeed. Cracking value as well.
Corney & Barrow Score 17 - 17.5
Recommended drinking from 2026 - 2030+
£160/CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
£80/CASE OF 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
£170/CASE OF 6 MAGNUMS, IN BOND UK
£90/CASE OF 1 DOUBLE MAGNUM, IN BOND UK
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Peter Sisseck’s Rocheyron is a blend of 74% Merlot and 26% Cabernet Franc in 2022. Dark cherry fruit on the nose, with plum and blackberry. Great purity of aroma. The palate is both rich and cool, the silky dark berry fruit of the medium-full body offset by driving limestone tension and nerviness. We tasted the grape varieties separately before tasting the final blend. Peter described the 100% Cabernet Franc sample as “annoyingly good” – by which I assume he meant he wish he had more! (It was rich and dense, with quite brilliant freshness.) The yield was exactly where Peter wanted it, at 32hl/ha. Fermented at 25-27°C (as a point of interest, Pingus is fermented 23-25°C). The wine then spent 30 days in concrete vats, before being transferred to oak barrels for 14 months of elevage in 35% new oak barrels, followed by 2-3 months in cement vats. 14.5% abv. The equivalent of 21,000 bottles has been produced.
C&B Score 18.5
Recommended drinking from 2028 - 2040+
£415/CASE OF 6 Bottles
£145/CASE OF 1 Magnum
£315/CASE OF 1 Double Magnum
£605/CASE OF 1 Imperial
All prices are quoted in bond UK
62% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon and 14.5% Cabernet Franc, 1.5% Petit Verdot. Richer dark berry fruit aromas compared to La Chapelle de la Mission. The palate is cool, dark and ripe, very well poised, with real personality. Doesn’t shy away from the heat of the season, but captures it elegantly. Fine chalky tannins. 14.4% abv.
C&B Score: 18
Drinking dates: 2027-39
87% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc. Ripe raspberry aromas, with orange rind and summer roses. The palate is fresh and vibrant on the entry, opening onto a powerful mid-palate of rich, pure raspberry and blackberry fruit, with bitter chocolate, framed by firm, finely grippy tannins. Lots of energy and verve, making for an upbeat, exciting Conseillante.
C&B Score: 18+
Drinking dates: 2029 - 2041
Owned by the Manoncourt family. 2022 was the second vintage made in the new cellars at Figeac. 35% Merlot, 34% Cabernet Franc, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon. Dark sultry, silky aromas. The palate is tensile on the attack, opening onto a richly, darkly fruited mid-palate, framed by firm, finely grippy tannins. Cropped at 34hl/ha. 14% abv. Picked 1st – 26th September, the earliest harvest here to date.
C&B Score: 18+
Drinking dates: 2029-2046
75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot. Reticent raspberry and wild strawberry aromas. The palate is cool and focused, with fine chalky tannins, which are currently grippy and assertive. 14% abv. 40% new oak.
C&B Score: 17-17.5
Drinking dates: 2025-32
71% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Cabernet Franc. From Cussac and Listrac, in the Haut-Medoc. 66% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Petit Verdot. Dark and medium-bodied, with fine, grippy tannins. Lots of matter, good ageing potential. 14.5% abv. This has had a new label from the 2018 vintage. 20% new oak.
C&B Score: 16.5-17
Drinking dates: 2025-30
82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot. Dark and cassisy aromas, with cedary oak spice. The palate is saturated and dense but, crucially, this is fresh and upbeat. The tannins are powerful and chalky, currently drying out the finish but that will integrate given the huge fruit density here. Polished but not overly, everything will find its balance. 100% new oak barrels for 18 months.
C&B Score: 18-18.5
Drinking dates: 2031-51
66% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Petit Verdot. Poised between dark and red berry fruit, with the signature silkiness of texture, this is a charming Croix, whose tannins build in volume and grip on the finish. 80% new oak. Patience required but this will be great. 14% abv.
C&B Score: 17.5+
Drinking dates: 2027-39
75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc. Pure raspberry and blueberry fruit, with a fabulous immediacy of flavour on the silky palate, guided by very fine tannins. Violet and rose aromas on the finish. Aged for 18 months in 50% new oak.
C&B Score: 18
Drinking dates: 2029-45
From the Leoville Las Cases stable, Clos du Marquis is a separate vineyard, flatter with finer gravel compared to Las Cases. 45.5% Merlot, 44.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc. Darkly fruited, good density and purity, with cedary spice and firm, grippy tannins. There is more substance and weight here than usual, it seems. Very good.
C&B Score: 17.5
Drinking dates: 2027-39
83.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10.5% Cabernet Franc, 6% Merlot. Very fine and refined, deeply darkly fruited, coffee bean, compressed and energetic.
C&B Score: 18.5
Drinking dates: 2029-46
94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot. Beautifully fine cassis and blackberry aromas, with fine cedary spices and raspberry in second file. The palate is darkly, ripely fruited and immediate, the pure blackcurrant fruit lifted by taut acidity and a citric zestiness. Very fine tannins which are coated in elegant, aromatic dark berry fruit. The grand vin represents 38% of production. 35hl/ha. 13.6% abv.
C&B Score: 19
Drinking dates: 2031-51+
90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc. Cool, focused red and black berry fruit, with impressive depth and purity. The chalky tannins are very fine, barely exerting a grip even at this early stage. Very elegant, with raspberry perfume on the finish. 14.5% abv.
C&B Score: 18
Drinking dates: 2030-45
71% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot, 1% Cabernet Franc. Inky dark berry fruit and fresh acidity, framed by fine, chalky, grippy tannins. Medium bodied but powerful, with a good balance of power and definition.
C&B Score: 17+
Drinking dates: 2029-41
56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc. Intense blackberry and violet aromas, with bitter chocolate. The palate balances concentrated, pure dark fruit with poised freshness and fine, fruit-coated tannins. Picked 7th to 27th September. Cropped at 30hl/ha. 14.5% abv.
C&B Score: 17.5-18
Drinking dates: 2028-2046
90% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc. Lifted red cherry aromas, with a freshness and crunch, lovely salinity and dark, linear, cool dark berry fruit on the palate. 40% new oak. 55,000 bottles were produced. Cropped at 36hl/ha.
C&B Score: 17.5 - 18
Drinking dates: 2027-41
81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc. Cool dark berry aromas with a fine cedary spice. The medium bodied palate’s fresh acidity lifts the bright raspberry flavours, which are framed by deftly extracted tannins, exerting a fine grip on the finish. Consciously hands-off, resulting in a wine of verve and energy.
Not tasted
Drinking dates: 2028-40
Not tasted
Drinking dates: 2029-39
70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot. Aromas of dark berries, violets and fine cedary spice. The palate opens cool and focused, onto a medium bodied mid-palate with ferrous minerality and detailed tannins.
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Drinking dates: 2027-37
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80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. Flashy dark cherry and cedary spice, with vanilla pod richness. The palate’s raspberry fruit is rich, slick, creamy and full bodied. 40-year-old vines. Cropped at 35hl/ha. 14.5% abv.
C&B Score: 17.5
Drinking dates: 2029-41
57% Sauvignon Blanc, 43% Semillon. Reductive flintiness, with toasty oak providing a flamboyant buoyancy to the fleshy white peach fruit. 13% abv.
C&B Score: 16
Drinking dates: 2025-28
74% Sauvignon Blanc, 26% Semillon. Grassy and with wet stone minerality. Fine and mineral, more coiled than Pagodes Blanc. Very good. 13% abv.
C&B Score: 17
Drinking dates: 2026-200
Not tasted
50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 49% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc. Dark, silky berry fruit with ferrous minerality and fine chalky, grippy tannins. Focused and acid-driven. 14% abv. 20% new oak. The yield was 26hl/ha. Picked 29th August - 13th September.
C&B Score: 16.5 - 17+
Drinking dates: 2029-39
61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot. Inky dark berry fruit, with bitter cherries. Finely rendered, with a tight core of nervy acidity and very compact tannins. This is like a tightly packed bud at present, lots of potential. 14% abv. 50% new oak. Cropped at 33hl/ha. Picked 7th - 23rd September.
C&B Score: 18+
Drinking dates: 2031 - 46
58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 4% Petit Verdot. Aromas of fine cassis and blackberry, with cedar and hints of vanilla and violets. The palate is brightly red fruited, intense and luminous, with particularly fine tannins. Very impressively structured. 14.4% abv.
C&B Score: 18+
Drinking dates: 2029-44
High-toned raspberry aromas. The palate is grippy and forceful. No holds barred here, patience required.
C&B Score: 16.5+
Drinking dates: 2033-48
69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot. Raspberry and strawberry fruits, with good purity and that bright intensity of small-berried fruit. The tannins are grippy and nicely fruit-coated, making for an elegant Lafon-Rochet in 2022.
C&B Score: 17
Drinking dates: 2026-36
55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc. Lifted dark cherry fruit and blackcurrant, with real intensity on the medium-full bodied palate. The tannins are impressively fine, making for a d'Issan with great ageing potential.
C&B Score: 17.5
Drinking dates: 2027-39
83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc. Offering ripe dark berried fruit on the nose, the palate is dense, with a touch of smoked meat. The tannins are bountiful and slightly chalky, with a bitter cocoa note to on the finish. This will repay patience.
C&B Score: 17.5+
Drinking dates: 2029-41
64% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc. Poised between ripeness and precision, with fabulously pure red berry fruit. Firm grippy tannins, making for an Echo of real ageing potential. 13.5% abv.
C&B Score: 17.5
Drinking dates: 2029-40
66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc. Inky dark and cassisy on the nose. The palate is so intense, the rich dark berry fruit framed by almost brutal (but fine), supremely age-worthy tannins. The most powerful rendition of Lynch Bages I can recall, in which the dials are all set to eleven. 14.2% abv.
C&B Score: 18-18.5
Drinking dates: 2030-46
67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot. Lifted red berries, with a high level of ripeness, concentration and grip. Made in the image of Parker…
C&B Score: 16
Drinking dates: 2028-40
65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc. Fine cedary spice and elegant blackcurrant, fresh and with firm, grippy tannins. Lovely wine, which does not shy away from the vintage. Cropped at 40hl/ha. 14% abv.
C&B Score: 17.5+
Drinking dates: 2028-41
70% Sauvignon Blanc, 30% Sémillon. A salty, tactile wine of textured white peach fruit and fine cedar. Long, focused finish. Very good, one of the successes among the 2022 whites. Cropped at 40hl/ha. 18 months in barrels. 14% abv.
C&B Score: 17
Drinking dates: 2025-28
56% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot. Bright raspberry aromas, leading into a sweetly red-fruited palate with fine cedary spice and chalky tannins. This finishes precise, fresh and salty. Picked from 14th – 26th September. Cropped at 28hl/ha. 55% new oak. 14.2% abv.
C&B Score: 17.5
Drinking dates: 2027-41
81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot. Savoury cedary spice. The palate is richly dark berried, with insistent blackcurrant fruit and firm, grippy tannins. 70% new oak for 18 months. 14.3% abv.
C&B Score: 18
Drinking dates: 2031-46
74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, 1% Carmenere, 1% Petit Verdot. Violets and blueberry aromas, with bitter chocolate and dark cherry fruit. The palate is raspberry-fruited, with a high level of ripeness, whilst remaining fresh. Well managed fine tannins. This bright, ripe style fully embraces the 2022 warmth.
C&B Score: 17.5+
Drinking dates: 2027-49
76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot. Medium bodied and darkly fruited, with juicy acidity and a fine, firm peppering of tannin. Herbaceous and minty on the blackberry-fruited mid-palate. Textbook characterful Margaux
C&B Score: 17
Drinking dates: 2027-37
76% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, 2% Cabernet Sauvignon. Cool, dark, leafy aromas, leading into a palate of sweet dark cherry fruit, verging on flashy, with good energy. Grippy tannins on the finish. 14.5% abv.
C&B Score: 17
Drinking dates: 2028-40
64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc. Lovely nose – damson plums with a peppering of warm spice. The palate has powdery, structuring tannins that have melded beautifully into the wine and concentrated fruit carrying onto the long, fresh finish. Cropped at 27hl/ha. 17 months in 50% new oak barrels.13% abv.
C&B Score 17.5
Drinking dates: 2029-41
72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot. Silky-smooth and refined, with insistent dark berry fruit building on the palate and filling the mouth with aroma. Fine-grained grip on the long finish. This should age beautifully. Cropped at 30hl/ha. 18 months in 50% new oak barrels. 14.5% abv.
C&B Score: 18.5
Drinking dates: 2027-41
59% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot. Rich raspberry fruit and firm tannins, with cedary spice. Lots of matter here, with a high level of fine ferrous grip. Drying finish – patience needed. 14.5% abv.
C&B Score: 16-16.5
Drinking dates: 2028-40
50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 9% Petit Verdot. Minty, herbaceous aromas and dark, rather seductive, rich berry fruit. Firm, grippy tannins. A serious Gloria in 2022, which should be excellent. Cropped at 34hl.ha.13.8% abv.
C&B Score: 17.5+
Drinking dates: 2027-37
93% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon. Merlot. Bright raspberry aromas, leading into a creamy palate of medium to full body. Sweet red berry fruit, good purity, with plushly fruit coated tannins. 37-year-old vines. Cropped at 26hl/ha. 14.3% abv.
C&B Score: 17
Drinking dates: 2028-41
69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot. Bright raspberry fruit with a lick of cream. The palate is plush and dense, with exuberant red berry fruit. 16 months in oak. 13.7% abv.
C&B Score: 17.5
Drinking dates: 2029-41
80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc. Pure, bright red fruited aromas with vanilla pod and sweet spice lead into a slick palate of cedar, clove and sweet blackberry fruit.
C&B Score: 17
Drinking dates: 2025-40
78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc. Blackcurrant and fine cedary spice on the nose. The palate is cool and focused, with a flair of ripe cassis on the mid-palate, refreshed by bright, even playful acidity and framed by very fine, chalky tannins. Does not shy away from the vintage, but wears it well.
C&B Score: 18.5
Drinking dates: 2029-46
75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc. A darkly berried nose of lifted bitter cherry and liquorice. The palate is salty-mineral and fresh, with fine, chalky tannins framing the creamy red/black berry fruit and a spicy lift to the finish. Lots of energy and a brightness from the inclusion of some whole bunches. 14.1% abv.
C&B Score: 18
Drinking dates: 2028-41
From the Mouton Rothschild stable. 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot. Shiny raspberry fruit, with a lick of cedary spice and a tangerine zest lift. Firm, compressed tannins on the finish.
C&B Score: 17 - 17.5
Drinking dates: 2027 - 37
52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot. 13.7% abv. A pronounced nose of cassis that sours from the glass with perfumed violets in the background. The palate has a lighter feel, suggesting this will drink younger.
C&B Score: 17+
Drinking dates: 2027-37
70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot. Fine, ripe blackcurrant fruit, a seductively dark Cabernet-dominant Pauillac, classy and so pure, with lots of ageing potential.
C&B Score: 18
Drinking dates: 2029-43
The second wine of Grand Puy Lacoste. 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc. Medium bodied and approachable, this feels like a product of a cooler vintage. Elegantly done.
C&B Score: 17+
Drinking dates: 2029-41
Plummy fruit and darker berry focus, fresh but deep and succulent. No lack of structure but it is suavely rounded. There is a supple lushness to this that makes it nicely hedonistic!
C&B Score: 17-17.5
Drinking dates: 2029-36+
65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc. Inky and deep purple in the glass. Opening up with black forest fruits and sweet black cherries with just a sprinkling of peppered spice. The palate is lively, with a refreshing mineral core and slightly chalky tannins that will require some time to fully integrate. A classic Moulis estate that keeps improving with every vintage. 1/3 new oak.
C&B Score: 16.5
Drinking dates: 2028-38