Labégorce Margaux 2022

95 points Jeb Dunnuck: "Tasted on multiple occasions, the inky-hued 2022 Château Labégorce (50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot) reveals a perfumed, intense nose of ripe black cherries, cassis, spicy oak, and violets. This carries to an exotic, full-bodied Margaux that brings beautiful purity, a supple, layered, elegant mouthfeel, polished tannins, and a great finish. It's a big, powerful wine that I wouldn't be surprised to see close down over the coming 3-4 years. It will evolve for at least two decades. Drink: 2025-2045. (2/27/25)"

94 points Lisa Perrotti-Brown (The Wine Independent): "This cuvée from Nathalie Perrodo and team is a blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. It opens with a dark, smoky and toasted nose, currently loaded with the scents of high-toast oak, manifesting as cedar, tobacco, dark chocolate and then more cedar. Underneath I see layers of liquorice, black pepper and currant. The palate is softly polished, supple and bright, with dark and powdery fruit substance, all damson, currant, black olive and toast, with a rich spindle of ripe and well integrated tannins at its core, and fresh acidity too. This is very impressive, with a balanced and confident grip which persists long into the finish. A great example of the 2022 vintage from Labégorce. Tasted twice. The alcohol on the label is 14%. Drink: 2026-2042. (6/5/25)"

94 points Jeff Leve (The Wine Cellar Insider): "Flowers, tobacco, cedar, cherries, blackberries. and plums define the perfume. The lush, rounded palate is packed with sweet, ripe, dark, red fruits, silky textures, and most importantly, lift with energy in the finish. The wine blends 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2027-2050. (Mar 2025)"

94 points Peter Moser (Falstaff): "Deep dark ruby garnet, opaque core, purple reflections, delicate rim brightening. Floral of candied purple fruit, black cherries, some nougat, inviting, intense bouquet. Juicy, elegant, fine fruit sweetness, pleasant freshness, chocolaty but without opulence, mineral on the finish, certain ageing potential. (5/11/23)"

93 points Jane Anson (Inside Bordeaux): "(50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot). Powerful, intense, bitter aniseed, cardamon and crushed almonds on the finish, cocoa-mint, shows the intensity and black pepper kick of the vintage, balanced by waves of orange peel and fennel. Ripe but the fruit stays on the right side of savoury, and the tannins are intense without being drying. 40% new oak for ageing. Nathalie Perrodo, Marjolaine de Coninck CEO and technical director. Alcohol 14%. Drink: 2027-2040. (12/12/24)"

93 points James Suckling: "The blackcurrant and blackberry aromas are very attractive here. It’s medium-bodied with firm and silky tannins and a pretty finish. Not the most complex wine, but focused and complete. Drink after 2028. (1/7/25)"

92 points Wine Spectator: "This is suave, with alder smoke–infused blackberry and black cherry compote flavors carried by a note of warm humus and backed by echoing violet and iris notes on the finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Best from 2026 through 2036. (3/31/25)"

92 points Chris Kissack (Winedoctor): "This is all smoky toasted barrel on the nose, with bare hints of black fruit behind. This naturally comes across on the palate too, but I am taken hereby the wine’s honest texture, sinewy and nicely polished, with a slowly emerging layer of dark currant and damson fruits, intertwined with perfumed oak, mint, rose petal and sage, supported by a rich but integrated backbone of tannins which are infused, with the tobacco of the oak, throughout the palate. Rather an oak-driven sample but I see some good potential here. All in all a very good Labégorce this year, with a long, toasted, tobacco-oak finish. This could be a good buy. (Apr 2023)"