chateau calon segur 3eme cru classe st estephe

Château Calon Ségur

Château Calon Ségur, 3ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe, 2022

Name: Château Calon Ségur, 3ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe
Brand: Château Calon Ségur
Price: 753.53 GBP

96/100

The Wine Independent

96/100

Inside Bordeaux

95/100

Vinous

96-98/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2022
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£753.53
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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Constituting the earliest harvest in living memory, starting on the 6th of September, the Calon team was staggered by the quality of the Merlots. They were juicy and ripe with wonderful tension. Pronounced and even a touch flashy, the bouquet opens with silky red and black fruits, griotte, blood orange, peonies and camphor, there's a beautiful texture to the fruit, which is refined and silky, but so deep and almost unctuous. Although swathed in fine, velvety, lacy tannins, this is a taut, serious wine with plenty of sinewy muscle. Displaying Impressive concentration, with lots of detail, and a real sense of elegance and harmony, this finishes with a refreshing saline kick. Superb! 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot.

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We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

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Critic Reviews

96/100

Chris Kissack,

The Wine Independent

The grand vin is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot (a record for the grand vin), 5% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, and the élevage was in 100% new oak, for 20 months. The aromatic profile presents a dark and dusty character, with sweet black cherry and dried cranberry, and a touch of toasted oak. The palate is firm and freshly polished, with an upper layer of dark and savoury fruits, all black olive, currant and dark chocolate, with black pepper and toast nuances, while underneath there is a high-level frame of dark, savoury, salt-and-pepper tannins. A huge grip here, in a monolithic Calon-Ségur which will require an age to come good in the cellar, such is the dry and dense wrapping of tannins that courses within. Is it another version of the 2000 vintage, perhaps? Maybe – come back in thirty or forty years to find out. The alcohol on the label is 14.5%.

drinking window 2030 - 2066

date of review 06/2025

96/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Slate and chalk textured tannins, skilful work over ageing to ensure a focus on Cabernet Sauvignon. The intensity and concentration are seductive and you can expect plenty of black chocolate, espresso, cocoa bean, liquorice, crème de cassis, seriously enjoyable, clear ageing ability. 100% new oak in the cellars. 28hl/h yield, following hail. Harvest September 6 through to 27.

drinking window 2030 - 2046

date of review 03/2025

95/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 Calon Ségur is a wine that I found "uncompromising" when I tasted it at <em>en primeur</em>. Now that the wine is in bottle, it has a strident bouquet that marches from the glass with blackcurrant, bilberry, cedar and pine aromas. It’s very well defined and quite classic in style with finely chiseled tannins. The palate is medium-bodied, fresh and a little more saline than it showed out of barrel. Indeed, it has a tad more elegance now, though it still harks back to some of the classic postwar wines that I tasted in the past—in a good way. Very fresh on the finish, this is a sophisticated Saint-Estèphe born to give years of drinking pleasure, but my word, give it at least a decade before entertaining the idea of opening a bottle.

drinking window 2032 - 2062

date of review 02/2025

96-98/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2022 Calon-Segur is another superb wine from this historic Saint-Estephe third growth that began a comprehensive renaissance the better part of a decade ago. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of cassis and blackberries mingled with hints of fresh mint, burning embers, licorice and violets, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with terrific depth at the core, supple tannins and a long, saline finish. The blend consists of 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. Vincent Millet observed that "when you tasted the Merlot, you were under the impression that you were tasting Cabernet."

date of review 04/2023

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