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.

The nose, with its blend of flowers, cigar wrappers, licorice, incense, smoke, cherries, and espresso, is enticing. The palate is even better, showcasing silky-textured, salty cherries, hints of cocoa, and spices that build and linger with their refined edge. The wine blends 65% Merlot with 35% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2048. Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/wine-tasting-note/?vintage=2022&wine=Chateau%20Berliquet

Gorgeous perfumed aromas on the nose, very inviting. Still a little shy and tense, this is straight and incredibly focussed with grip to the fine, salty tannins. Lively and juicy red fruit is there but the texture and frame are doing all the talking as well as the lingering stone, pencil lead and graphite touches on the finish. It's shy right now but I love the cool freshness all the way through, no signs of the heat of 2022 in the fruit profile and the oak is incredibly well integrated at this point. Finessed and elegant.

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.

(94+ points) 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. - William Kelley

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. -- Antonio Galloni

This is a blend of 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc, and the élevage was in 44% new oak and the remainder in older oak and eight amphorae. A rather dark and perfumed nose to this 2022 St Emilion, opening out with a little time to reveal perfumed red cherry and currant, a touch of pomegranate, with a sandalwood and tobacco overlay, with crushed chalk and white flowers. The palate shows a lovely coherence, with a finely poised and delineated core of fruit, opening out to reveal a soft, broad and powdery texture, the sweetness of the perfumed fruit infused with this hearty tannic structure. An interpretation of the vintage with a robust build, which only seems to be emphasised by tasting it next to the supremely elegant Canon, both properties being in the hands of Chanel. This one will demand some cellar time. Tasted three times. The alcohol on the label is 14.5%.

A fresh red, with a lovely stream of raspberry and red currant coulis flavors punctuated with rose hip and hibiscus accents. The long, filigreed finish offers a subtle chalky spine for tension and focus. Modest in scale overall, but with lovely purity. Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Drink now through 2037. - JM