We tasted so many wines from 2022 St. Emilion, we divided our coverage into three parts. This is 2022 Saint Emilion Pt. 3, Wines M-Z. For Part One and Part Two… 2022 Saint Emilion Pt. 1 Wines A-E and 2022 St. Emilion Pt. 2 Wines F-L
2022 Mangot – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Lush, fruity, chalky, and polished, the wine quickly delivers its core of ripe, chocolatey-covered dark pit fruits with just a swirl, sniff, and sip. The salty end note adds complexity to the lingering finish. Drink from 2026-2042. 93 Pts
2022 Mangot Todeschini Distique 15 – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Chocolate, espresso, and smoky, dark red berries create the aromatics. The wine is Round, polished, and lush on the fruit-filled palate. You can enjoy this young, for all of its up-front, fruity flavors, as well as age it for more complexities. The wine is aged without new oak barrels in a combination of amphora and foudres. Drink from 2026-2042. 94 Pts
2022 Mauvinon – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Quite flowery in the nose, with a nice, albeit light touch of sweet, ripe, cherries, black raspberries. and plums with just a hint of a salty edge in the finish that allows the wine to linger. Drink from 2025-2037. 90 Pts
2022 Mazerat – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Sporting a new, quite stylish label, and a new moniker, Mazerat, the wine pops with its salty-edged, fruit, before the espresso, mint, plums and cocoa kick in. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2045. 94 Pts
2022 Milens – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Flowers, and fruit blend perfectly here. Add a touch of chocolate, licorice, and orange rind to the medium-bodied palate, and you come up with a perfectly charming wine that is going to drink great, right out of the gate. Drink from 2025-2038. 92 Pts
2022 Millery – St. Émilion Grand Cru – The creamy palate, with its layers of ripe, deep, silky fruits, vibrancy, and polish, is what this wine is all about. In this vintage, there is a lifted, supple character that allows the sweet, red fruits to glide easily across your palate before you experience its lingering finish. This is a wine to look out for as it is owned and produced by the same team that owns and produces Chateau Figeac, and clearly, this is a wine on the upswing. Forward in style, you can enjoy this on release. Drink from 2025-2040. 94 Pts
2022 Moine Vieux – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Savory herbs, tobacco leaf, smoked red fruits, and licorice show in the nose and on the medium-bodied, savory-edged palate. There is fruit and freshness on the palate, and in the finish. Drink from 2025-2034. 90 Pts
2022 Monbousquet – St. Émilion Grand Cru – From the get-go, this opulent gem pops from the glass with layers of smoky, black, with red fruits. The creamy finish hits all the right notes on its way in and on the way out. 2022 marks the 30th vintage of Monbousquet under the ownership of the Perse family. The wine blends 70% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2025-2042. 95 Pts
2022 Mondou – St. Émilion Grand Cru – The wine is almost as big as the bottle, which is large, and oversized. Rich, opulent, and fleshy, there is a polish to the tannins coupled with a lushness that leaves an impression on the palate. I like the touch of spice, and citrus that pops in at the back of the finish. This is a new wine that comes from vines planted close to Chateau Monbousquet. Drink from 2026-2040. 93 Pts
2022 Monlot – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Black plums black cherries, dark chocolate, and licorice are at plat here. Stylistically, this is lush and creamy, with loads of supple, creamy, ripe, sweet, delicious from start to finish This is a property that has been on the upswing over the past few vintages. Drink from 2025-2040. 93 Pts
2022 Monlot Heritage – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Soft, forward, and approachable, the wine is ready-to-go on release for folks seeking, unadorned, tasty, sweet red fruits from start to finish. Drink from 2025-2030. 88 Pts
2022 Montlabert – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Medium-bodied, elegant, fresh, and vibrant from the get-go, the silky-textured wine offers lift and energy to its layers of ripe, red with black pit fruits, licorice, and cocoa in the mid-palate, and finish. There is a softness and polish to the fruits that linger. Drink from 2025-2040. 94 Pts
2022 Montlabert La Croix – St. Émilion Grand Cru – I really like the floral edge to all the red fruits in the nose. On the palate, the wine is forward, medium-bodied. and expressive, so you can enjoy this on release while waiting for the Grand Vin to mature. Drink from 2025-2031. 90 Pts
2022 Moulin Saint Georges – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Espresso, incense, flowers, and smoky red fruits pop in the nose. The silky, lifted, elegant, medium-bodied palate is fresh, creamy, long, and refined. While this can be enjoyed young, it will age quite well for more complexity. The wine blends 80% percent Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2042. 93 Pts
2022 Moulin du Cadet – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Chocolate, licorice, and espresso-topped plum aromatics show without much effort. Lush, plush, and polished on the palate, the wine is soft, creamy, and fresh, finishing with layers of black-fruit blended with chocolate. Drink from 2026-2040. 94 Pts
2022 Muse du Val – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Dark chocolate, with a bouquet of flowers is what initially grabs your attention. From there, it is the fruity, juicy, rounded palate, with its sweet, ripe, black with red fruits, and cocoa that seals the deal. This is already quite delicious, and it is only going to get better from here with a little age. Drink from 2025-2040. 92 Pts
2022 Palais Cardinal – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Cherries, strawberries, oak, and cocoa aromatics pop in the perfume. The palate is medium-bodied, soft, silky, fresh, and creamy with loads of fruit and freshness in the finish. Drink from 2025-2038. 90 Pts
2022 Palatin – St. Émilion Grand Cru – It takes some looking to move past the oaky nose, to the medium-bodied palate where you find an open, bright, cherry, cocoa, and round-textured, espresso finish. Drink from 2025-2032. 88 Pts
2022 Pas de l’Ane – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Flowers, and cherries fill the perfume, and the medium-bodied, elegant, polished and fresh palate. I really like the red pit fruit in the finish, as it lingers. Drink from 2025-2038. 91 Pts
2022 Patris Querre – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Smoke, licorice, wet earth, and plums load the perfume. On the palate, the wine is round, and fruity, with a strong, savory, chalky edge in the finish. Drink from 2025-2037. 88 Pts
2022 Pavie – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Deep, dark, intense, concentrated, powerful, long, and rich, this is an attention-seeking wine from the moment it hits your glass, with its opaque, black-purple hue. With just a swirl or two, the wine releases notes of black, red, and blue fruits, licorice, espresso, chocolate, and smoke. Surprisingly, even with this much weight, the wine is nimble, balanced, and fresh on the palate. That sense of lift remains from the mid-palate through to the finish. This is the first vintage where you find the vines from Bellevue Mondotte, and Pavie Decesse integrated into Chateau Pavie. The wine blends 52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc with 18% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2030-2065. 98 Pts
2022 Pavie Aromes de Pavie – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Already charming to drink, the wine pops with its notes of flowers, spice, licorice, mint, and red berries with touches of chocolate in the nose. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, forward, and creamy, with ample, sweet, ripe, lifted fruits in the finish. Aromes de Pavie is no longer the second wine of Pavie because all of the fruit emanates from a specific 11-hectare parcel, so it should be looked at as its own brand. The wine blends 50% Merlot with 50% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2040. 93 Pts
2022 Pavie Macquin – St. Émilion Grand Cru – The striking perfume, with its showy display of cherry blossoms, licorice, black fruits, dark cherries, orange rind, and cigar wrappers sets the tone for the wine. On the palate, it is the opulent, silky fruits with their purity, length, freshness, and seamless finish, with the silky-textured palate presence that steals the show. The wine blends 80% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2028-2060. 98 Pts
2022 Peby Faugeres – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Rich, rich, rich, did I mention the wine is rich yet? Opulent, dark, and velvety, the wine delivers its chocolate, and espresso-drenched plums, and black cherries with ease in the nose, mid-palate, and in the decadent, long, palate-staining finish. The wine is produced from 100% old vine Merlot. Drink from 2027-2050. 95 Pts
2022 Peby Faugeres Le Merle de – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Forward, fruity, medium-bodied, round, sweet, and packed with ready-to-go, ripe, creamy-berries, and chocolate, this is already delicious, and ready to drink. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2025-2037. 92 Pts
2022 Perle du Bergnet – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Espresso is what you initially notice before you find its strawberries and plums on the palate, and in the spice-tinted finish. Drink from 2025-2032. 88 Pts
2022 Petit Faurie deSoutard – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Licorice, chocolate, espresso, and dark fruits come alive with little effort here. The wine is rich, opulent and creamy, with a concentrated, fresh, mid-palate, and an endnote that expresses its pit fruits, licorice, and salty chocolate from start to finish. Drink from 2026-2040. 93 Pts
2022 Petit Gravet Aine – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Flowers, mint, charcoal, chalk, sea salt, and red fruits combine to offer an intense, spicy, fruit-packed experience with layers of energetic berries that are as elegant, as they are long, sweet, vibrant, and pure. Produced from 90% Cabernet Franc and 10% Merlot, this is one of the heaviest concentrations of Cabernet Franc in Bordeaux. Drink from 2027-2050. 96 Pts
2022 Petit Val – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Already open, and delivering its core of sweet, ripe, round-textured cherries, topped with chocolate, you can enjoy this on release for all of its ripe, juicy fruits. Drink from 2025-2033. 90 Pts
2022 Peymouton – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Already displaying its ample charms, the wine opens with its nose of cherries, flowers, and licorice, followed by a medium-bodied, supple, creamy, vibrant, and fruit-filled, red, pit fruit, chocolate-accented finish. The wine blends 89% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 1% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2038. 91 Pts
2022 Philippe Troussier Grain Bleu – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Round, lush, oaky, and rounded, it is hard to get past the oak before the fruit appears. It does come, but it takes patience. Drink from 2025-2037. 87 Pts
2022 Poesia – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Salty chocolates, black plums, black raspberries, flowers, cocoa, and licorice pack the aromatics. The palate, with its elegant, soft, plush, and silky fruits is fresh, long, and complex. The minerality, coupled with just a hint of chocolate-mint in the finish is the perfect touch to end the wine with. The wine blends 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2047. 95 Pts
2022 Pressac – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Floral, elegant, refined, and silky, the wine is medium-bodied, vibrant, and pure, with a beautiful, soft, cherry-packed finish. Drink from 2025-2040. 94 Pts
2022 Pressac Tour de Pressac – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Medium-bodied, fruity, and fresh, with soft, earthy, sweet red cherries, and a round-textured fruity finish that is perfect for early drinking pleasure. 2025-2030. 90 Pts
2022 Rochebelle – St. Émilion Grand Cru – A touch of oak is still apparent before you find the wine’s black raspberries, crushed stones, and licorice in the perfume. The palate is vibrant, medium-bodied and the finish is fresh and refreshing. The wine blends 85% Merlot with 15% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2040. 92 Pts
2022 Rocheyron – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Texturally, the wine is lush, round, and creamy, which makes the perfect backdrop for its layers of black cherries, licorice, plums, cocoa, and crushed stones. Everything is balanced, fresh, and deep, finishing with layers of dark red, sweet, pit fruits touched by a hint of salt at the end of the finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2050. 95 Pts
2022 Rol Valentin – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Medium-bodied, silky, elegant, and fresh, the nose pops with its floral edge as soon as the wine hits your glass. On the palate, the wine delivers a creamy finish that hits the spot. Drink from 2026-2040. 93 Pts
2022 Rolland-Maillet – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Flowers and cherries pop with little effort. The wine is medium-bodied, soft, fruity, and creamy, with a silky-textured, sweet, cherry-filled finish, You can enjoy this on release with ease. Drink from 2025-2037. 91 Pts
2022 Roylland – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Licorice, herbs, flowers, truffle, and dark pit fruit aromas open the wine. There is richness, and lift on the palate which is perfect for the chocolatery fruits with their salty edge that linger. Drink from 2025-2040. 92 Pts
2022 Saint-Georges-Cote-Pavie – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Flowers, black and red fruits, blue fruits, espresso, and crushed stones combine to create the perfume. The wine is medium-bodied, lush, rich, and vibrant, showcasing a purity of fruit, silky tannins, and sweet red pit fruits in the spicy, chocolatey finish. Drink from 2026-2040. 94 Pts
2022 Saint-Pey – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Black cherries, plums, chocolate, and licorice are all over the place here, in the nose, and on the creamy, lush, fruit-filled palate. This will be a treat to enjoy in its youth and for 15 or more years after that. Drink from 2025-2040. 92 Pts
2022 Saintayme – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Silky, elegant, lusciously-textured, plums, black cherries, and chocolate are packed into the nose, and the medium-bodied, vibrant, fruity palate. The finish hangs in there with its sweet fruits that start from the mid-palate and go through to the finish. Made from 100% Merlot. You can enjoy this on release, or age it for more complexity. Drink from 2025-2038. 92 Pts
2022 Sanctus – St. Émilion Grand Cru – The newly renamed vineyard, which still remains a bit confusing to me is lush, polished, rich, ripe, and fleshy. The fruits are sweet, long, and creamy, finishing with layers of plums, black cherries, vanilla, and cocoa that linger with lift, finesse, and freshness. The wine comes from vines on the slopes of their vineyard and is produced blending 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2042. 94 Pts
2022 Sansonnet – St. Émilion Grand Cru – 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. 96 Pts
2022 Simard – St. Émilion – Medium-bodied fresh, and floral, the fruits are almost, but, not quite high-toned, finishing with vibrant, red pit fruits and a nuance of spice. Give this just a year or so of cellaring, and enjoy it for 12 or more years. Drink from 2026-2037. 91 Pts
2022 Sol Beni – St. Émilion Grand Cru – This is quite oaky in nature. Packed with espresso. burnt wood, dark chocolate, and drying tannins, this might be better with bottle age, but I am not sure it is ever going to integrate. Drink from 2025-2038. 88 Pts
2022 Soutard – St. Émilion Grand Cru – I love the flowers, spice, licorice, and roasted fruits that open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is refined, supple, lively, and creamy with a gorgeous sweetness, as well as a finish packed with layers of chocolate-covered black cherries and plums. This could be the finest vintage of Soutard ever produced! 76% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, 8% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 6% whole-bunch, fermented Malbec make the blend. Drink from 2026-2047. 95 Pts
2022 SoutardCadet – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Clearly, the wine is on the hedonistic side with its non-stop layers of chocolate, licorice, mint, black plums, and black cherries. Full-bodied, and intense, yet, the wine is never heavy. Instead, it perfectly balances all of its fruits with ease, finishing with a blast of black pit fruits, polished tannins, mint, dark cocoa, and espresso. Drink from 2026-2042. 95 Pts
2022 Teyssier – St. Émilion Grand Cru – It is easy to be charmed here with little effort. The wine is soft juicy, and sweet, with a medium-bodied, and a core of red fruits that shine in the finish. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2025-2035. 90 Pts
2022 Tour Baladoz – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Flowers, licorice, and espresso-tinted red fruits provide the medium-bodied wine with lift, freshness, and layers of sweet, ripe, red berries with more of those delicious, espresso, cocoa, fruits that are made even better by the touch of salt on the backend. Drink from 2026-2040. 93 Pts
2022 Tour Saint Christophe – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Deep, rich, intense, long, and hedonistic, this thrill ride includes layers of perfectly ripe, mineral-tinted, red, black, and blue fruits. There is length, purity, volume, and expansiveness, as well as balance, freshness, and complexity here. The finish lingers with more of those beautiful fruits. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2048. 96 Pts
2022 Tour Saint Pierre – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Medium-bodied, soft, fresh, and vibrant, with a nice sweetness to the fruits, but a drying edge in the finish. You can enjoy this on release. Drink from 2025-2035. 88 Pts
2022 Tour de Capet – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Flowers, chocolate-coated plums, cherries, and a touch of chalk shine through in the nose, and medium-bodied palate in a fresh, and vibrant style. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2025-2037. 90 Pts
2022 Touzinat Prieure – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Quite oaky on the palate, but, once past the oak, the dark red fruits are soft, round, and lifted, with a touch of chalk, and chocolate in the finish. You can enjoy this jut about on release. Drink from 2026-2037. 89 Pts
2022 Trapaud – St. Émilion Grand Cru – The strong floral, and tobacco notes in the perfume spring from the blend of 60% Cabernet Franc with 40% Merlot. Medium-bodied, soft, and approachable, the finish is a bit light, but fresh, and plummy with a lot of lift, and spicy herbs in the finish. Drink from 2025-2037. 90 Pts
2022 Trianon – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Charming, soft, and polished with a character coming from its floral bouquet on the nose, and its center of silky with a core of sweet, red pit fruits with chocolate in the finish. 2025-2037. 90 Pts
2022 Troplong Mondot – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Deeply colored, the wine is rich, deep, full-bodied, concentrated, and vibrant. The depth of flavor, paired with the wine’s creamy texture, leaves you with with depth and width on the palate. The lingering finish displays sweet, red and black fruits, salt-tinted oranges, and a sensation of chalk on the backend. The wine blends 85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2060. 97 Pts
2022 Trotte Vieille – St. Émilion Grand Cru – The florality in the perfume, with its accents of mint, licorice, spice, and oceanic touches, is striking. The palate is silky, vibrant, and plush. The fruits are deep, intense, long, vibrant, and, most importantly, pure. There is length, complexity, opulence, balance, and a strong sensation of crushed stones, blackberries, chocolate, and plums in the finish you can taste and feel. 2022 marks the first time the estate included Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend. TrotteVieille continues its non-stop string of successes. The wine blends 50% Cabernet Franc, 45% Merlot, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2060. 97 Pts
2022 Trotte Vieille Dame de Trotte Vieille – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Refined, ready to go charmer with loads of sweet, ripe, plummy fruits, chocolate, and licorice from start to finish. This is prefect to order in a bistro or café, as it it going to be ready to go on release. The wine blends 55% Merlot with 45% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2035. 91 Pts
2022 Valandraud – St. Émilion Grand Cru – The showy nose delivers its array of licorice, camphor, incense, espresso, blackberries, and blueberries effortlessly. The wine is rich, creamy, and frankly luxurious as it caresses your palate with waves of smooth, polished, velvety fruits. And, even with all this concentration, density, and intensity, the wine has enough lift, and freshness to feel almost light on its feet! This represents a new level of quality for Valandraud, and that’s saying something. The wine blends 88% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2055. 98 Pts
2022 Valandraud Virginie de Valandraud – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Licorice, smoke, black cherries, and blackberries create an enticing aroma. The palate surpasses expectations with its layers of rich fruits complemented by hints of chocolate and espresso. There’s a lovely depth of fruit here, featuring a persistent salty note that lingers at the finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2025-2042. 93 Pts
2022 Villemaurine – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Silky, and polished, the wine is fresh, vibrant, and lush. On the palate, the chocolate-accented fruits with their salty edge, coupled with licorice, and the touch of refreshing mint, hit everything perfectly in all the right places. The wine blends 85% Merlot with 15% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2042. 96 Pts
2022 YonFigeac – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Light, bright, medium-bodied, early-drinking, fresh wine, with a cocoa-tinted edge to the red fruits in the mid-palate and finish. A bit light, but still charming. This will be best in its youth. Drink from 2025-2035. 90 Pts
2022 Zaya – St. Émilion Grand Cru – Black cherries, espresso, and strawberry jam kick things off in the nose easily. The palate is round, creamy, and packed with chocolate-covered fruits with a hit of espresso in the finish. Drink from 2025-2038. 90 Pts
Next, we will continue our 2022 Bordeaux coverage of the Right Bank with a look at 2022 Cotes de Bordeaux and the 2022 St. Emilion Satellite Appellation Wines
