Chateau Poesia (Futures Pre-Sale) 2022

Professional Ratings

• 95 James Suckling
  Lots of graphite and purple fruit with salty and lavender undertones. Medium- to full-bodied, fine and beautiful. Excellent length.
  Barrel Sample: 94-95
• 95 Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2022 Château Poesia is a bigger, riper, powerful wine based on 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc. Ripe black cherries, smoked tobacco, graphite, licorice, and ample chalky minerality all define the aromatics, and it's medium to full-bodied, with a great mid-palate, ripe yet building tannins, and a terrific finish. With a pH of 3.39, it's going to need time.
  Barrel Sample: 93-95
• 93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Offering up aromas of sweet berries, cherries and plums, framed by sweet new oak, the 2022 Poesia is medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with a lively core of fruit, chalky tannins and a saline finish. Given this late-ripening limestone site's naturally low pH, I tend to think that even less would be more with regards extraction, but this is nevertheless a strong effort.
  Barrel Sample: (91-93)+