Chateau Meyney Saint-Estephe 2022 - 750ml

95pts James Suckling

This always represents good value. Spicy, stony and floral at the same time with deep blue fruit and hints of pine, incense and cloves. Veins of tannins show a mineral verve. This is firm, powerful and long. A bit too young at this stage but already showing potential. A very good vintage. Drink after 2028

94pts James Dunnuck

While I wasn't able to taste the 2022 Château Meyney En Primeur, it's a beauty now from bottle. Needing air to show at its best, this deep purple-hued Saint-Estèphe has a ripe, powerful nose of darker currants, chocolate, smoked tobacco, and cedar pencils. This carries to a full-bodied Meyney that has a broad, layered mouthfeel, ripe, velvety tannins, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. It's accessible even today with a decant, but it's going to take a decade to hit maturity and will age gracefully on its concentration and depth.

93pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2022 Meyney has turned out very well, offering up aromas of crème de cassis, bay leaf and pencil shavings, followed by a medium to full-bodied, supple and fleshy palate that's rich and seamless, exhibiting an integration of tannin that can't always be taken for granted at this address. In fact, this appears to be the best Meyney produced for quite some time, and it's well worth seeking out.

93pts Decanter

Ripe brambleberry fruit aromas on the nose. Rich and filling on the palate, this has a nice texture of crushed blue fruit pulp, fleshy and chewy with cool cola and liquorice accents. The oak feels a little prominent in the softly drying tannins and cedar spice on the finish which gives this a subtle sense of opulence. Full bodied and full of flavour.

About the Winery

Chateau Meyney in Saint Estephe has a long history starting in the 17th century. At that time, the Bordeaux wine estate belonged to the monks who planted the first vines at Meyney about 1660. Prior to the planting of the vines, the property was previously used as a convent.

However, the modern age of Chateau Meyney starts in 1917, when it was purchased by the well-established Cordier family that same year. The wines were produced at the time by the same team that looked after all the numerous Cordier estates.

Headed by Georges Pauli, the other wineries in the group included; Chateau Gruaud Larose in St. Julien and Chateau Cantemerle in Haut Medoc among their properties.

In 2004, Chateau Meyney was purchased by CA Grands Crus, which owns several other Bordeaux properties including; Chateau Grand Puy Ducasse in Pauillac, Chateau Rayne Vigneau in Sauternes, and other assorted Cru Bourgeois estates. Thierry Budin was placed in charge of the various Bordeaux wine-producing estates.

Hubert de Bouard of Chateau Angelus began consulting Chateau Meyney and all the other CA Grands Crus properties in late 2013.

Things quickly changed for the better at Chateau Meyney. With the 2014 vintage, Chateau Meyney produced what could be the best wine in the history of the estate. That is until the sublime 2016 vintage which is even better! Chateau Meyney Vineyards, Terroir, Grapes, Winemaking

The 51-hectare Left Bank vineyard of Chateau Meyney is planted with 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, and 10% Petit Verdot. The current vineyard plantings represent a change in the Chateau Meyney vineyard. Previously, there was some Cabernet Franc planted in their Medoc vineyard. Those vines were removed and more Merlot was added to the vineyard in its place.

The vineyard is in 1 large, single parcel, which is unusual for such a big vineyard. However, the large vineyard is divided into 63 separate plots. Situated close to Chateau Montrose and not far from Chateau Phelan Segur, they have some very good terroir.

Chateau Meyney has a terroir of gravel and sand with a large streak of blue clay close to three meters thick, that resides underneath the gravel and sand, topsoil.

The vineyard is planted to a vine density of 9,000 vines per hectare for their newer plantings. The older plantings are closer to 7,500 plants per hectare. The vines are on average between 35 and 40 years old. However, they also have very, old vines that are close to 100 years of age, which are some of the oldest vines in the Saint Estephe appellation.