January 22, 2024 - Red berries, well dosed oak, some complexity, good acidity and round tannin. Nice wine.
October 31, 2023 - 2019 Bordeaux Tasting, MW tasting (Vintner's Hall, London): 77% Mer 23% CS, 14.50%
Forward, spicy, heady, black fruit, palate smooth, juicy, spicy, warmth, med body and finish
October 30, 2023 - cherry, pastille, earthy undergrowth, some very precise oak. maybe slightly alcohol prickle. Palate is red fruited medium bodied savoury. this is modern in style, great drinking.
October 11, 2023 - I'm puzzled by the previous two notes; this wine is coming along very nicely indeed. It's still a bit tannic, of course - at four years old, that's hardly a surprise. But the fruit is good and there's plenty of aromatic complexity. You can drink it now, but best to give it another few years.
August 13, 2023 - While it got better after three nights under a cork, it started poorly and never got to good. It is dusty and tight, without real charm.
June 4, 2023 - I've had some seriously good wine from this chateau, but this one was, shall we say, difficult. It doesn't lack for material and is packed with deep, dark black plums. But I also found the tannins fairly raw and edgy with a not-so-fresh ashiness impinging on the fruit. There is something about the wood that is just not jiving here - it is not heavy, but it comes across raw and not fully clean. It might fix itself up in the cellar but I wasn't drawn in by anything else that would justify the science experiment.
June 28, 2022 - UGC Bordeaux (Union Station - Chicago IL): Walk around tasting. Ripe while fun and balanced with lots of fleshy black fruit with lighter tannins for enjoyment in its youth, as soon as the next few years.
March 29, 2022 - Loads of black plums, flowers, chocolate and citrus notes come through easily on the nose. Medium-bodied, soft, elegant, sweet and fresh, with a salty minerality accent to the red pit fruits in the endnote, this refined gem should age quite nicely. Drink 2024-2037.
August 1, 2020 - 2019, Château Berliquet, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé AOC (77% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% Alkohol, 45% neue Barrique. Verkostet am 23. Juli auf Château Canon). Intensive Nase, feine Brombeerfrucht, ein Hauch Tabak, Rauch, schwarze Kirschen, auch schwarze Johannisbeere, sehr komplex. Im Gaumen frisch, saftig, zeigt Druck, Power, wirkt opulent aber nicht schwerfällig, zeigt Finesse, und zeigt im Abgang eine saftige, frische Frucht und eine schöne Länge. Ein frischer Saint-Emilion mit sehr guten Anlagen. 2024-2040+, 91-93/100 vvPunkte vvWine.ch