Berliquet - Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2022

Alexandre Ma

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byAlexandre Mathe3/10/2025

In the 2022 Château Berliquet, I can almost detect the shadow of Château Canon. The rich clay gives the wine a deep, sturdy structure, perfectly complementing the natural salinity of the limestone. The aromas of sour plums and myrtle berries, mature yet delicate, sweep away any traces of the dryness from the 2022 vintage. Back in 2020, I described Château Berliquet as ‘a wild horse restrained.’ After two years of careful refinement, it has now found its own rhythm and pace. This vintage is so enticing, and it fills me with great anticipation for what the future holds…

Wine Advocate

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byWilliam Kelleythe3/7/2025

The 2022 Berliquet offers up lovely aromas of raspberries, cherries, violets and pencil shaving, followed by a medium to full-bodied, lively and seamless palate that's dense and muscular, with rich tannin and a mineral finish. As readers will remember, this is an estate on the rise, with changes including opting to retain higher canopies, which means that the fruiting zone of rows planted along the slope are now shaded, preserving freshness.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

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byJane Ansonthe3/7/2025

A small 7.5ha vineyard with limestone cellars underneath, on plateau overlooking the valley below. Investment from owners Chanel over last few years is beginning to make its presence felt. This is really tasty, love the sense of lift and chalkiness to the structure that gives a cushion to the fruit, a great quality Berliquet, delivers on En Primeur promise. 44% new oak barrels, 8 amphoras, the rest in one year old barrel, 45hl/h yield. In organic conversion.

The Wine Cellar Insider

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byJeff Levethe3/4/2025

Berliquet, Château

Jeb DUNNUCK

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byJeb Dunnuckthe2/28/2025

A richer, darker-fruited wine than its big brother Canon, the 2022 Château Berliquet comes from slightly more clay soils and is always a bigger, broader wine, especially when compared to Canon and its neighbors on the upper plateau. It offers more currant and black cherry fruit as well as scorched earth, chocolate, and truffly aromas and flavors that gain persistence and intensity with time in the glass. These carry to a rich, full-bodied Saint-Emilion that has a beautifully layered mouthfeel, plenty of mid-palate depth, and a great finish. The level of purity and precision here is exceptional. The 2022 is 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc, from a mix of clay and limestone soils on the upper plateau, that spent 16 months in 44% new French oak, with 8% in amphora. It will evolve nicely over the coming 20-25 years.

Yvesbeck.wine

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byYves Beckthe2/25/2025

65% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Franc Baies noires et profondeur sont les deux premiers éléments qui me viennent à l'esprit en humant le bouquet de Berliquet ! De bonne densité, le vin est droit, précis et soutenu par des tannins aux grains fins offrant une assise autant fiable que structurante. Finale persistante. Un vin tonique et salivant ! 2026-2047 94/100

Vinous

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byNeal Martinthe2/12/2025

The 2022 Berliquet has a little more horsepower on the nose compared to its stablemate, Château Canon, although it does not possess the same mineralité and delineation. Black cherry, blueberry and light violet scents mix with iodine. The palate is medium-bodied with a sapid black fruit note and quite grippy tannins. This is an assertive Berliquet that deserves four to five years in bottle. It’s very fine…but I think there will be even better with age.

Jamessuckling.com

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byJames Sucklingthe2/3/2025

Aromatic and fresh with sandalwood and dark fruit as well as bark and mushrooms. Medium-bodied with creamy tannins and a savory finish. Juicy is the word. Very attractive now but better in three to four years.

Vinous

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byAntonio Gallonithe1/28/2025

The 2022 Berliquet continues to impress under its new ownership. Deep, plush and generous, Berliquet shows the richness of the year in its broad-shouldered, ample personality. Plum, black cherry, rose petal, cedar and leather build nicely. This was the last vintage made in the old cellar. It spent 16 months in a combination of French oak barrels and amphora.

Wine Maniacs

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byLin Liuthe5/30/2023

Decanter.com

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byGeorgina Hindlethe5/25/2023

Juicy, supple, delicate and refined with a lovely texture and acidity that grips the mouth and says 'drink me'. Crystalline cool blue fruit, pure and well defined, this is pulsing with life, vibrant and present. Powerful and filling with a generous core, playful and friendly but complex and concentrated too. Confident with bite and appealing chalkiness at the finish. Clean and pure, so easy to enjoy still with structure and balance and a salty stone minerality on the finish. In organic conversion. Yield of 45hl/ha.

Alexandre Ma

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byAlexandre Mathe5/17/2023

In Château Berliquet 2022, I caught a glimpse of Château Canon 2022 in its shadow. The rich clay imbues the wine with a profound structure that beautifully complements the limestone's innate salinity. Swirling the glass, the aromas of sour plum and juicy yellow plum fill the air, wiping away any trace of the dryness characteristic of the 2022 vintage. In 2020, I described Château Berliquet as a "wild horse in captivity." Now, after two years of cultivating, it has found its rhythm and transformed into "a magnificent stallion parading in dressage". Château Berliquet has a bright and promising future.

Vinous

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byNeal Martinthe5/17/2023

The 2022 Berliquet was picked from 29 August to 14 September and matured in 44% new oak. The wood is a little more prominent on the nose than the Canon, with black cherries, bilberry and light oyster shell scents. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannins. This is a juicy Berliquet that probably belies the structure underneath. There's more red fruit toward the finish, with a touch of pepper on the aftertaste.

The Vintage Journal

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byAndrew Caillard MWthe5/17/2023

Medium deep crimson. Lovely red cherry red plum, minerally leafy aromas with underlying vanilla/ aniseed notes. Roasted walnut red plum, cedar flavours, fine chocolaty feruginous tannins and mocha cacao notes. Brusque and exuberant. 65% Merlot 35% Cabernet Franc 44% new oak with a proportion in amphorae. 14.5% alc

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

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byJane Ansonthe5/16/2023

Dark damson colour, beautiful sense of upliflt and freshness, with mint leaf, sage, wild rosemary, cassis fruits. Slate texture to the wine here, feels carved out and crafted, with edges of austerity that constrict the cassis and raspberry fruit. 44% new oak, 8 amphoras (around 10% of overall), the rest in one year old barrel, 45hl/h yield. Great stuff.

matthewjukes.com

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byMatthew Jukesthe5/15/2023

The Wine Independent

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byLisa Perrotti-Brownthe5/15/2023

The 2022 Berliquet, 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc with a yield of 45 hl/ha, is aging in 44% new oak barrels. Deep garnet-purple in color, it flies out of the glass with notes of lilacs, red roses, and Sichuan pepper, leading to a core of redcurrant jelly, black raspberries, and wild blueberries plus a waft of truffles. The full-bodied palate is rich and opulent, with loads of bright red berry sparks and a lively backbone, finishing on a lingering mineral note. pH 3.55.

Yvesbeck.wine

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byYves Beckthe5/10/2023

Berliquet se révèle avec fraîcheur et pertinence. Invitantes nuances de cerises et de myrtilles. Belle entrée en matière avec de la clarté, respectivement un caractère linéaire, pur et beaucoup de fraîcheur. Les tannins sont légèrement crémeux, parfaitement intégrés. Ils offrent de la puissance, de manière subtile, canalisée avec pour effet de conférer de fins amers à la finale qui s'en retrouve dynamisée et étirée. Une sorte de bonbon pas doux, mais séduisant de par la vivacité de son charme ! Il n'en est pas moins harmonieux et offre de belles perspectives de garde de surcroît.

Bettane & Desseauve

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by Bettane & Desseauvethe5/10/2023

Cru terrien à la fougue corsetée, délicieuse note de ronce au nez comme en bouche et un raffinement exemplaire dans le tannin, belle finale sur la myrtille, avec la touche saline du calcaire.

Jeb DUNNUCK

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byJeb Dunnuckthe5/10/2023

Candied cherries, tapenade, violets, and floral notes all emerge from the 2022 Château Berliquet, a medium to full-bodied, seamless Saint-Emilion that brings plenty of ripeness while staying nicely balanced, light on its feet, and elegant. Based on 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc, from yields of 31.2 hectoliter per hectare, it will spend 16 months in 44% new French oak, with a portion of the blend aged in amphora. This isn't the most powerful or opulent wine in the vintage, but it's as seamless and graceful as they come.

Vinous

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byAntonio Gallonithe5/9/2023

The 2022 Berliquet is super-concentrated, dark and ripe, but also without the forbidding tannins of the past. Succulent plum fruit, mocha, licorice and dried herbs are some of the many notes that grace this gorgeous Saint-Émilion. It will be interesting to see where the 2022 ends up post élevage. Today it is full-bodied and quite opulent. Tasted four times. Drinking window : 2028-2042

The Wine Cellar Insider

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byJeff Levethe5/5/2023

Flowers, crushed stones, espresso, and red pit fruits create the nose. On the palate, the wine is expressive, silky, long, and deep, with intensity, purity and elegance, finishing with salty-chocolate, black, red and white cherries, plums and a dash of cocoa. The wine leaves you with refined, soft, polished edge in the finish. The wine blends 65% Merlot with 35% Cabernet Franc, 14.5% ABV, 3.55 pH. Drink from 2026-2048.

Wine Advocate

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byWilliam Kelleythe5/2/2023

The 2022 Berliquet is brilliant, bursting with aromas of plums, wild berries and lilac, followed by a medium to full-bodied, concentrated and vibrant palate that's deep and mineral. It's likely to be another of the vintage's more attractive en primeur proportions. This estate just goes from strength to strength—and that's before its new winery has been constructed! One of the most significant changes has been opting to retain higher canopies, which means that the fruiting zone of rows planted along the slope are now shaded, preserving freshness.

Jamessuckling.com

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byJames Sucklingthe4/19/2023

Lots of dark and crushed stones with blackberries and black olives. Dark earth. Full-bodied and more concentrated with very intense fruit and chewy tannins. Velvety and slightly rough, but all there.