Château GISCOURS 2022

Description

Yves Beck 96-98 points www.yvesbeck.wine

64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet Franc

Comme à son habitude, Giscours crée un lien exceptionnel entre des notes de baies noires et la fraîcheur liée à la menthe et à l’eucalyptus. Le bouquet s’en retrouve éclatant, invitant, frais. Friand et juteux, le vin a du corps et de l’élégance. Ses tannins sont imposants, puissants. Ils se révèlent en crescendo et devront être quelque peu amadoués afin que leur côté austère puisse être emballé, mais à vrai dire ce n’est pas vraiment un souci ; au contraire, ces fins amers contribuent à étirer la finale. On retrouve les notes fruitées et la fraîcheur annoncées par le bouquet dans cette finale. Elle non seulement juteuse et saline mais également persistante. Un Giscours de caractère qui se positionne avec sérénité et détermination.  2029-2048

Neal Martin 95-97 points www.vinous.com
The 2022 Giscours was picked between 1 and 29 September, one of the earliest ever, with no SO2 added until blending and using bio-protection (yeasts) to protect the must. It has a delightful and sensual bouquet with lifted, violet and peony-scented blueberry and black cherry fruit. This is very well-defined and perhaps the purest I have encountered from barrel. The palate is medium-bodied with a disarming silky texture, harmonious and focused. It’s mineral-driven with a poised and pixelated finish. Certainly, this represents one of the best wines from this Margaux estate in recent years, echoing their golden period of the 60s and early 70s. Tasted twice with consistent notes.

Antonio Galloni 95-97 points www.vinous.com
The 2022 Giscours is a regal, sophisticated wine. Succulent red cherry, blood orange, spice, menthol and rose petal lend notable vibrancy and freshness throughout. Most surprisingly, the 2022 remains light on its feet, especially for a wine made from such low yields in a warm, dry year. Over the last few years Giscours has been one of the most improved properties in the Médoc. The 2022 is another step in that direction. Sublime.

William Kelley 94-96+ points www.erobertparker.com
With the 2022 Giscours, this estate takes another step up, delivering a deep and characterful wine redolent of cherries, dark berries, violets, peony and forest floor. Medium to full-bodied, broad shouldered and layered, it’s deep and elegantly muscular, with impressive concentration, abundant but refined tannins and a structural authority reminiscent of the great Giscours vintages of the 1970s. Why is it so good? There are many reasons, but one is the high proportion of old vines—almost 60% of the blend deriving from vines that are over 50 years old—in a vintage that favored vines with deep, well-established root systems. Another is the increasing precision of harvesting at this address: Giscours’s old vines are frequently co-planted with younger replacements that have filled any gaps in the ranks over the years; so, blocks are now picked in two or three passages instead of all at once, with the younger vines picked first.

Georgina Hindle 96 points  www.decanter.com
A seriously impressive and beguiling Giscous in 2022 and one of the most elegant. A remarkable wine with gorgeous clarity and purity and just the most gentle seduction, even more so because it really doesn’t feel as if it’s trying too hard yet still delivering depth and complexity. Fresh and lifted, fragrant and so juicy but with textured tannins that give both the weight, structure and density to the quite bright, tangy, vibrant fruit. Nicely composed, feels quite powerful yet restrained and finessed offering lots of immediate drinking appeal but with a serious backbone that suggests long ageing too. Elegant, fineseed, subtle confidence with such cool minerality that gives freshness all the way through. It’s not the most dense, or fleshy, but so refined. A compelling wine. Possible upscore in bottle. 3% Cabernet Franc completes the blend. 3.70pH. A yield of 27hl/ha, the lowest ever. No Sirene de Giscours this year. 100% gr

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