Appellations

Malescot Saint Exupery 2022

Margaux, Third Growth

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Tasting Notes

This is very good, intense, great concentration and grip, rose buds, damson, tension, grip and personality. A wine that I can often find overpowering, but it is thoroughly enjoyable in this vintage. Léa Zuger owner, Michel Rolland consultant.

Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2042 Date: 06 March 2025

The 2022 Malescot Saint Exupéry has a delineated bouquet featuring crisp and airy blackberry, raspberry and light iris flower scents. It's quite Burgundian in style. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, a gentle grip and slightly darker fruit than at primeur. Like the nose, it's mineral-driven with a dash of spice toward the finish. There is an endearing purity about this Margaux, and it should drink well for 15 to 20 years. This is very fine.

Score: 93 Neal Martin, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2027-2052 Date: 12 February 2025

The 2022 Malescot Saint Exupéry is a potent, strapping Margaux, as it always is. Firm tannins enshroud a core of black fruit, scorched earth, tobacco, incense, gravel and graphite. There's certainly plenty of depth, but it lost some freshness in élevage. I liked this more en primeur.

Score: 90 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2027-2042 Date: 28 January 2025

The 2022 Château Malescot Saint Exupéry is gorgeous and certainly a Margaux worth seeking out. Dense purple-hued, with a rich, powerful bouquet of ripe black fruits, melted chocolate, smoked tobacco, and spice, it picks up a beautiful floral character with air, is full-bodied, and has a layered, opulent mouthfeel as well as a great finish. It shows the vintage's building yet velvety tannins and is going to warrant just 4-5 years or more of bottle age, but it's a brilliant wine in the making.

Score: 94 - 96 Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Date: 05 October 2023

Offering up aromas of rich blackberries, cassis, sweet spices, pencil shavings and creamy new oak, the 2022 Malescot St. Exupery is medium to full-bodied, rich and fleshy, with a broad attack that segues into a layered core of expressive fruit that's framed by sweet, powdery tannins. A blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, this is one of the appellation's most flamboyant wines, but it retains good balance and boasts a healthy pH of 3.65.

Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Date: 28 April 2023