Le Dôme

Le Dome, St Emilion Grand Cru, 2022

Name: Le Dome, St Emilion Grand Cru
Brand: Le Dôme
Price: 1086 GBP

94/100

Inside Bordeaux

96-98/100

The Wine Independent

92-94/100

Vinous

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En primeur

2022
6x75cl
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£1,086.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Jonathan Maltus' flagship, Le Dome is perhaps the most Cabernet Franc dominant blend in Bordeaux (80% Cabernet Franc, 20% Merlot). Head winemaker, Neil Whyte is assisted by superstar consultant oenologist, Thomas Duclos. The person responsible for the fiche technique is still living in the past with a final harvest date of the 28th of October! A typo we are assured, they actually finished on the 28th of September. Whilst not the first in St Emilion, they are significantly earlier than they used to be, capturing ripe, fresh fruit characteristics. Now including the fruit from Les Astrieres, this leads with gentle notes of cedar, blackcurrants, violets and a hint of cocoa. There's an impressive core of dense, chewy fruit, with notes of cassis and liquorice. The tannins are much more refined here. They're still big and blocky, but they're ripe and loaded with dark berries and minerals.

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Critic Reviews

92-94/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 Le Dôme includes part of Les Asteries, picked between 14 to 28 September and matures in 80% new oak. Blackberry, liquorice and espresso on the nose, quite pure in style with just a little headiness. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit laced with graphite and black pepper. Quite dense, with more detail than the Vieux Château Mazerat on the slightly blurred finish, nevertheless, this constitutes a fine Le Dôme that should age with style. 15.1% alcohol.

drinking window 2029 - 2060

date of review 05/2023

96-98/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

Made from 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot, the 2022 Le Dome is deep garnet-purple in color. The nose is very closed to start off, needing a lot of patience and swirling to coax out notes of kirsch, juicy blackberries, blueberry compote, and underbrush, leading to wafts of menthol, rose oil, iron ore, and cinnamon toast. The big, concentrated, full-bodied palate is super-concentrated and built like a skyscraper, delivering a solid backbone of very firm, grainy tannins and seamless freshness to support the generous fruit, finishing very long and minerally. pH 3.72.

drinking window 2030 - 2065

date of review 05/2023

94/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

The high expression of Cabernet Franc in the vintage is a real bonus, benefitting from the full ripeness of the grape while retaining freshness. Truly stands out among the range of wines, easily worth its reputation. Has a juicy finish with chalkiness and tension, still muscular with concentrated and intense black fruits, as are all the Maltus wines, built to last, with swaggering monumental scale and imagination - I can't help but wonder just how good this could be if they scaled things back a touch. This is a 2022 vintage as I would have imagined it before I began tasting the En Primeurs, with its exuberance and ripeness, and it is striking that I have not found it everywhere. Fruit from the former site of Les Asteries included in here (as well as in the separate smaller private bottling of Les Asteries). Located up on the plateau, harvest September 14 to 28. 100% new oak. New winery.

drinking window 2032 - 2048

date of review 05/2023

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