Flowers, red fruits, licorice, and black cherry aromatics take a single swirl before popping from your glass. On the palate, the wine is long, intense, and sexy. The fruits coat your palate, tasting as good as they feel. The finish with its chocolate, pit fruits, and salty edge lingers, expands, and remains balanced while poised on your palate. The wine blends 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc.15% ABV, 3.75 pH. Drink from 2026-2045.95 Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/search-wine-tasting-notes/?szSearch=2022%20Le%20Prieure

The 2022 Le Prieuré is a classy wine with undeniable finesse. There is a bit more mid-palate richness than is the norm here. Dark cherry, mocha, new leather and licorice build in the glass. As always, Le Prieuré is one of the more elegant, mid-weight wines from Saint-Émilion. Beams of tannin and brisk acids lift the finish. -- Antonio Galloni

High toned and serious on the nose, concentrated, intense, ripe and perfumed, a touch of alcohol also. Focussed and taught but with a really super juicy and appealing initial burst of flavour, herbal raspberries, creamy strawberries and some stalky bramble blackcurrant giving sweetness, spice and tension. Clean, balanced and slick, this is stylish, generous and likeable but still with a serious core. The texture is wonderful, tannins are perfectly weighted and integrated. A success. 3.75pH. Ageing 18 months, 30% new oak. Eric Boissenot consultant.

Retains a limestone fingerprint in terms of its texture, its sappy black fruits, and its ocean spray salinity on the signoff. trace of heat here but this is a delicious wine. 30% new oak for ageing. Harvest September 13 to 26. 40hl/h yields, the highest across the Calon Ségur portfolio of five estates, on limestone soils, south facing, 6ha extra this vintage from Ch Malineau that they bought in 2021, slightly different soils (colluvial) so that stopped the classification in 2022.

This property is now managed by the same team as Calon-Ségur, since its acquisition by Suravenir. There have been significant changes here, not least a vineyard expansion from 6 to 11.6 hectares. The blend is 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc, and the élevage was 18 months using 30% new oak. The aromatics are dark and complex, smoky and savoury, with desiccated blackberry, black plum, smoke, tobacco and soot, with a similarly dark and brooding character on the palate matched by a fine backbone of powdery and well-integrated tannins as well as fresh acidity. Lots of savoury and saline character here, leading to a dark and toasted finish. This has super potential. The alcohol on the label is 14.5%. - Chris Kissack

Ripe and caressing in feel, with boysenberry and blackberry fruit that's vivid and enticing. There's a frankly toasted apple wood note, but violet and anise provide range, and the fruit has the drive to soak it all up through the savory-edged finish. Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2026 through 2036. - JM