Château PALMER 2022

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Yves Beck 100 points www.yvesbeck.wine

Dégusté le 18.12.2024 par Yves Beck

51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot

Palmer 2022 affiche de la profondeur, d’entrée, avec un bouquet aux nombreuses facettes favorisant subtilité, pluralité et fraîcheur. Les nuances de baies rouges et noires assorties à des notes de pivoines, de garrigues ainsi qu’une touche de fèves de cacao soulignent la complexité olfactive. L’attaque poursuit dans la même logique que le bouquet ; elle ouvre la voie à un vin élégant, précis, profond et scintillant. Il dispose d’une source énergétique qui semble inépuisable, tant elle lui confère éclat, luminosité et définition avec des tannins précis, musclés, dignes d’un marathonien disposé à courir au moins deux marathons à la suite. Ces tannins offrent de la vigueur et de la fraîcheur, communément avec de fins amers qui cautionnent l’expression et la persistance de la finale tout en assurant la fraîcheur au travers d’une touche saline. Un Palmer exceptionnel qui a beaucoup de temps devant lui tout en offrant une large fenêtre de dégustation. Entendez par là que l’on pourra le savourer jeune et nettement moins jeune !  2027-205

Jean-Marc Quarin 99 www.quarin.com
Couleur noire. Nez intense, fin, fruité, pur, cacaoté et complexe. Minutieux en entrée de bouche, particulièrement aromatique au milieu, avec un corps ample et fondant et surtout beaucoup, beaucoup de goût, le vin s’étire complexe, profond, avec de la grâce dans le toucher. C’est superbe d’harmonie, de velouté. Très grande longueur. Assemblage : 51 % cabernet sauvignon, 45 % merlot, 4 % petit verdot. Degré d’alcool : 14°04 (moyenne plus) – pH : 3,79 (moyenne plus). Rendement : 22 hl/ha. Poids des baie de cabernet sauvignon : 0,7 gr ! Merlot: 1,10 gr

Neal Martin 96-98 points www.vinous.com
The 2022 Palmer was cropped at just 22hL/ha due to the berries being 25-30% smaller than usual. It bursts forth on the nose with precocious black cherries, blueberry, violet and touches of marmalade and tobacco in the background. Complex and expressive. The palate is structured, with the tannic backbone, that winemaker Thomas Duroux talked about, lending this Palmer a sense of verticality. Hints of black pepper emerge with time, multi-layered, a powerful Margaux and yet the IPT is actually lower than elsewhere (76). Quite linear on the tobacco-infused finish, which is just quintessential Palmer. Do reserve a bin in your cellar for this and let it gather dust for at least a decade. 14.4% alcohol.

William Kelley 97 points www.erobertparker.com
As is the case at neighbor Château Margaux, the 2022 Palmer is one of the most powerful wines this estate has ever produced. A blend of 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot, it offers up aromas of blackberries, burning embers, violets, iris and sweet soil tones, followed by a full-bodied, broad and expansive palate, its velvety attack segueing into a rich and layered core. Supple, seamless and concentrated, it checks in at 14.4% alcohol and a rather high pH of 3.79.

Antonio Galloni 96-98 points www.vinous.com
The 2022 Palmer is a wine of sublime beauty and refinement. Silky, caressing and super-expressive, the 2022 is also one of the most surprising wines of the year in that it does not show the drought or heat of the growing season at all either in its flavor profile or feel. Succulent black cherry, plum, leather, licorice, spice and dried herbs lend notable complexity throughout. The 2022 starts off rather slow, and then really explodes on the back end. It is a magnificent wine in every way.

Georgina Hindle 97 points  www.decanter.com
Sharp, energetic, racy and electric. The power and concentration is evident in the dark, rich, concentrated fruit with tannins that grip and take hold with a crushed stone texture, liquorice, graphite, tobacco and cool mint spice. The expression is exceptionally delineated with focus and push from start to finish. Quite bold and charged, but I love the succulence, the perfumed fruit, chalky sensation and overall sense of confidence. In high definition in terms of sharpness and tang to the fruit. A big wine but delivered with poise. 3.79pH. 13% press wine. Harvest took one month from 7 September to 5 October. 70% grand vin, 30% Alter Ego.