Château Calon Ségur

Marquis de Calon Ségur, St Estèphe, 2022

Name: Marquis de Calon Ségur, St Estèphe
Brand: Château Calon Ségur
Price: 196.72 GBP

90/100

Inside Bordeaux

91-93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

90/100

The Wine Independent

91/100

Vinous

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2022
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£196.72

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

After the magnificent Capbern, this feels a little lit looser knit and less harmonious, the additional Merlot lends a charming florality, and a smoother, rounder texture. Some alluring glossy fruit – the oak is more present. It is definitely a big step up for Marquis, but for our tastes it has to be Capbern every time.

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

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

The Journey

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.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

90/100

Chris Kissack,

The Wine Independent

The second wine of Calon-Ségur, this is 58% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% each Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, and the élevage was in 30% new oak for 17 months. The fruit on the nose feels dark and lightly roasted, with red cherry and baked strawberry, touched with a little black pepper. I find there is a welcoming charm to the palate though, which presents a rather forward phalanx of juicy blackberry, red cherry and liquorice fruits, laced with black pepper and toast. The palate presents much the same, laced with tobacco and cigar box, with a rich wrapping of robust but nicely knit-together tannins. This is an impressive second wine for the vintage, sinewy but confident, with very dark fruits and piles of tannic grip. The alcohol on the label is 15%, which is remarkable as although it fits with the style, there is no suggestion of heat or spirit on nose or palate.

drinking window 2026 - 2042

date of review 06/2025

91/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 Le Marquis de Calon Ségur is driven by Merlot on the nose, with vivid red cherry and crushed strawberry scents soaring from the glass while maintaining delineation and freshness. The medium-bodied palate offers a bit of sucrosity on the entry, transitioning into a more structured and classically styled middle and finish, with hints of black truffle emerging towards the end. This is simply a delicious Marquis de Calon Ségur.

drinking window 2026 - 2040

date of review 02/2025

90/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Violet reflections, dense fully ripe berries, tannins just the right side of constricting, with black berry, spiced plums, fresh almonds and smoked earth. 26hl/h yields. No pumping over here, and since 2021 they have been making greater use of fractions of press wine during blending. Hail impact brought yields down. 30% new oak

drinking window 2026 - 2038

date of review 05/2023

91-93/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

One of several over-performing second wines in this vintage is the 2022 Le Marquis de Calon-Segur, a medium to full-bodied, fleshy and seamless Saint-Estephe redolent of minty berries, licorice and rose petals. Lively and penetrating, it punches above its weight.

date of review 04/2023

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.