Winemaker Notes
Blend: 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Juicy, forward, bright and vibrant this has a great energy straight away, crisp and tannic, but well integrated so you get almost a bouncy palate with flint edges giving minerality and acidity providing the lift. Feels detailed and precise, lovely definition to the overall frame and this carries to a long finish. Impressive, I like the strength and the focus and it doesn't feel overripe or too extracted. So much to like about this wine with subtle liquorice, mint and crushed stone aspects. This will be excellent.
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James Suckling
Very perfumed with blackberry, violet and ink character following through to a medium body and extremely integrated tannins that are lightly chewy and really long. I am impressed with its cool nature and quality phenolics. A blend of 57% cabernet sauvignon, 39% merlot and 4% petit verdot. Some of the cabernet and merlot are co-fermented.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2022 Château Belgrave is juicy and upfront, with bright cherry and plum fruit as well as some sappy, floral nuances. Playing in the medium-bodied range of the spectrum, it's balanced, has nicely integrated acidity, fine tannins, and a great finish,The blend is 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot, raised in 25% new oak.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Belgrave offers a delicate, complex bouquet of cassis, mulberries, licorice and spices mingled with menthol notes. Medium to full-bodied, harmonious and round, it has a fleshy core of fruit, velvety tannins and a long, delicate finish. This is a real success at this address.
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Vinous
The 2022 Belgrave has an attractive, refined and focused nose with a pencil box-infused black fruit aroma. The palate is medium-bodied with a fleshy opening and fine acidity. It’s not complex per se, yet it boasts plenty of freshness on the finish, plus the sapidity to urge another sip.
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Wine Spectator
Ripe and sleek, with delicious boysenberry and black cherry puree notes gilded with ink and iris accents. There's a nice tug of tarry earth at the tail end. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2031. 16,666 cases made, 450 cases imported.
One of the world’s most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, the best of these are densely hued, fragrant, full of fruit and boast a structure that begs for cellar time. Somm Secret—Blends from Bordeaux are generally earthier compared to those from the New World, which tend to be fruit-dominant.
One of the most—if not the most—famous red wine regions of the world, the Medoc reaches from the city of Bordeaux northwest along the left bank of the Gironde River almost all the way to the Atlantic. Its vineyards climb along a band of flatlands, sandwiched between the coastal river marshes and the pine forests in the west. The entire region can only claim to be three to eight miles wide (at its widest), but it is about 50 miles long.
While the Medoc encompasses the Haut Medoc, and thus most of the classed-growth villages (Margaux, Moulis, Listrac, St-Julien, Pauillac and St. Estephe) it is really only those wines produced in the Bas-Medoc that use the Medoc appellation name. The ones farther down the river, and on marginally higher ground, are eligible to claim the Haut Medoc appellation, or their village or cru status.
While the region can’t boast a particularly dramatic landscape, impressive chateaux disperse themselves among the magically well-drained gravel soils that define the area. This optimal soil draining capacity is completely necessary and ideal in the Medoc's damp, maritime climate. These gravels also serve well to store heat in cooler years.