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Bordeaux 2022: Wines from a superb vintage revisited in bottle


Bordeaux 2022 vintageGeorgie Hindle (right) with Marielle Cazaux, managing director of Château La Conseillante, Pomerol.

Compiling the in-bottle report is a fascinating experience. Readers may find it overkill that we taste roughly 900 wines, prepared for early assessment in the April after harvest, and then taste the same wines again only 20 months later.

It’s mostly dictated by Bordeaux’s en primeur system, which allows for the purchase of and investment in wines whose barrel-maturation is as yet incomplete, but it’s a remarkable exercise in tracking a wine’s early progress.

Scroll down to see notes and scores of a selection of top red wines from Bordeaux…


Source : https://www.decanter.com/premium/bordeaux-2022-wines-from-a-superb-vintage-revisited-in-bottle-551760/

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