Chateau Sansonnet 2022

Bewertungen

• 96/100

  The Wine Cellar Insider
  Opulence is the name of the game here. The wine is deep, and rich, with layers of juicy, sweet, luscious, black plums, and cherries. There is intensity, depth of flavor, weight, and body, balanced with ample lift, so the wine feels fresh, and alive on your palate. The long, expansive finish keeps on going with its layers of mineral-tinted, fruits, chocolate, and sexy textures that coat your palate again, and again. Simply put, this is a hedonistic thrill ride in your glass! The wine blends 95% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2045."

• 95/100

  Jeb Dunnuck
  A blend of 92% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2022 Château Sansonnet is gorgeous stuff, offering cassis, crushed stone, graphite, and truffly aromatics. Beautifully pure and medium to full-bodied on the palate, it has integrated acidity, a fresh, focused style, and ripe tannins. Balanced and seamless, it shows the terroir’s freshness and precision while still bringing concentration and texture. Aged for 18 months in 70% new oak barrels, this should drink well for 20+ years. Total production: 1,166 cases."

• 95/100

  Falstaff
  Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Feines Nugat, reife Herzkirschen, ein Hauch von Pflaumen, süßer Tabak, attraktives Bukett. Komplex, reife Kirschen, gute Frische, straff und anhaftend, rotbeerige Nuancen, mineralisch, zeigt sehr gute Länge, sicheres Reifepotenzial."

• 95/100

  James Suckling
  A modern and dense St.-Emilion with rich, glossy fresh fruit. Plums, dark chocolate, fine spices and a hint of olives on the nose. Juicy, with some nicely tart berries and dusty tannins on the full-bodied palate. Concentrated and tight in the finish, but polished. Very well executed. Drink from 2028."

• 94/100

  Jane Anson
  Intense concentrated slate and crushed rocks against slabs of bitter chocolate and cassis, black cherry and creamy raspberry puree. This is intense, musuclar and structured, in the spirit of the vintage, beautifully balanced by curls of woodsmoke, crushed rose petals and slate. Lovely. Famile Lefevère. 70% new oak."

• 94/100

  Decanter
  Highly charged, verging on potent aromas of concentrated, sun-kissed fruit and aniseed on the nose. Good energy and focus, you can feel the warmth of the vintage and the alcohol pokes through towards the finish, ending with heat and spice, but there's lovely fruit purity and and a sense of charm too. It's on the more evocative side despite the tannin finesse and it really leaves a heady impression. Fans of that kind of style will love it."

• 92/100

  Wine Spectator
  This is supple and enticing in feel, with a mix of red and black currant fruit that shows nice underlying energy as notes of cedar, singed mesquite and iron play out through the lightly toasted finish. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Best from 2026 through 2036. 1,300 cases made."

• 92/100

  Lisa Perrotti-Brown
  This is a blend of 92% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, the élevage 16 months in 70% new oak, the rest in old barrels, foudre s and amphorae. A nose of sweet and slightly baked red cherry and redcurrant fruits, with fragrant notes of rose petal and violet, and a touch of lactones from the oak. This is followed by a supple, polished and quite charming texture, the palate filled out with jet black fruits, all dark currant, black cherry, damson and dark chocolate, with an underpinning of finely knit and ripe tannins which come to the fore on the finish, drying but not dominating the length. This is a very modern style with sweet fruit which works well despite the robust alcohol and dense texture. One for the modernistas. Tasted twice. The alcohol on the label is 15%."

• 17/20

  Weinwisser
  Sehr opulentes Bouquet, dunkles Edelholz, Nougatpraline und Pflaumenlikör. Am mächtigen Gaumen mit weicher Textur, körnigem Extrakt, stützender Rasse und muskelbepacktem Körper. Im konzentrierten Finale mit einem Korb blauer Beeren, Estragon und dunkler Mineralik. Ein Kraftprotz, der gebändigt werden muss."

• 16,5/20

  Jancis Robinson
  Very deep colour. Heady nose with very careful tannin management despite the two Cabernets in the mix. Acidity a bit marked. But it’s lively. Lots of life and pizzazz here. And lots of tannin at the moment!"