Château Cissac

Château Cissac, Haut Médoc, 2022

Name: Château Cissac, Haut Médoc
Brand: Château Cissac

92/100

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88-90/100

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Cissac’s vineyards are set on good terroir in the hinterland behind Pauillac, and owner Louis Vialard built the reputation of this popular Cru Bourgeois the hard way in the sixties and seventies, travelling the globe and shaking many thousands of hands. He always found a warm welcome in the UK, where the chateau’s traditional style was particularly well received, and our company was one of his regular customers for many years. Now under the direction of Louis’s daughter, the wines continue to please a demanding, Francophile audience, and we are glad to be offering this wine once again as a primeur. (NB UK sales only.)

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

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.

Further Reassurance

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

92/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

One to look out for, has great texture, plenty of grip, good rise through the palate, feel that it has life ahead, deep blackcurrant, fresh fig and plum fruits, cocoa bean, liquorice, torrefied, good grip. Marie Vialard owner and director, located in Cissac-Médoc. Gravel over clay-limestone, 26hl/h yield, 25% new oak. One point upscore from En Primeur.

drinking window 2026 - 2036

date of review 11/2024

88-90/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 Cissac has a "correct" bouquet with blackberry, briary and light tobacco scents emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with strict tannins, fresh and grippy, with a slightly minty finish. A kind of "carefree" Cissac…and I like that. But it doesn't quite get the pulse racing.

drinking window 2025 - 2038

date of review 05/2023

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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.