The Grand Vin 2022 Château Palmer is based on 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, and the rest Petit Verdot, from tiny yields of 22 hectoliters per hectare. It's a deep, unctuous, fabulously textured 2022 that does everything right. Ripe blackcurrants, blueberries, liquid violets, and freshly sharpened pencil notes define the aromatics, and it's full-bodied, with a pure, layered, seamless mouthfeel, a remarkable floral character, and a great finish. It's a ripe, opulent, incredibly sexy Palmer that will benefit from a decade of bottle age and evolve gracefully over the following 30-40 years.
“The average yield for Margaux was 30 hl/ha. We did just 22 here,” Palmer’s CEO Thomas Duroux sighed. “The berries were so tiny. My expectation was that this would be a climate driven vintage. But it’s the origin of the berries that stands out. The soils worked, and the vines never stopped, except some very young vines. It was a long harvest, from the 7th of September until the 5th of October. Knowing that the wines might be high in alcohol but not so high in acidity, we knew we needed a great backbone—we needed perfect phenolic ripeness. I'm super happy about this 2022 backbone.”
