Chateau Giscours 2022

Château Giscours is a renowned Margaux Grand Cru Classé celebrated for its elegance, perfume, and finesse. Aromas of blackcurrant, blackberry, violet, cedar, graphite, and baking spices lead to a silky palate with refined tannins, vibrant freshness, and a remarkably long, graceful finish.

Food Pairing: Pair with roast lamb, beef tenderloin, duck breast, venison, wild mushroom dishes, or aged Gruyère for an elegant Bordeaux dining experience.

98 Points - James Suckling

Stunning aromas of black currants, dark mushrooms and black cherries with forest-floor notes. Full-bodied, filling your mouth with fine, caressing tannins and dark, flavorful fruit. The tannins are very intense and structural, spreading across the palate in layers and giving intensity and energy. Plenty of energy and verve here. This has gravity, too. 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc.

97 Points - Jeb Dunnuck

The deeply colored and glass-staining 2022 Château Giscours is packed with cassis, black cherries, violets, and graphite-like aromatics. Medium- to full-bodied, it’s concentrated and intense, with beautifully ripe tannins, a pure, graceful mouthfeel, and a long, structured finish. There’s serious depth here, and while it already shows remarkable balance.

96 Points - Decanter

A seriously impressive and beguiling Giscours in 2022 and one of the most elegant. A remarkable wine with gorgeous clarity and purity and just the most gentle seduction, even more so because it really doesn't feel as if it's trying too hard, yet still delivering depth and complexity. Fresh and lifted, fragrant and so juicy, but with textured tannins that give both the weight, structure and density to the quite bright, tangy, vibrant fruit. Nicely composed, feels quite powerful yet restrained and finessed, offering lots of immediate drinking appeal but with a serious backbone that suggests long ageing too. Elegant, finessed, subtle confidence with such cool minerality that gives freshness all the way through. It's not the most dense, or fleshy, but so refined. A compelling wine. Possible upscore in bottle. 3% Cabernet Franc completes the blend. 3.70 pH. A yield of 27 hL/ha, the lowest ever. No Sirène de Giscours this year. 100% grand vin. Ageing 17 months, 50% new oak. 10–15% press wine. Tasted twice.

96 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2022 Château Giscours has realized all the potential it showed en primeur, wafting from the glass with a deep bouquet of sweet berries, mint, rose petals and pencil shavings. Medium- to full-bodied, deep and layered, it's textural and enveloping, built around lively acids and sweet powdery tannins, concluding with a long, resonant finish. As I pondered two years ago, why is the 2022 so good? There are many reasons, but one is the high proportion of old vines—almost 60% of the blend derives from vines that are over 50 years old—in a vintage that favored vines with deep, well-established root systems.

95 Points - Wine Spectator

Warmed cassis and plum notes form the core, while lilting lilac, violet and iris accents stream throughout. Offers a flash of black tea on the finish, along with a beguiling, cashmere-like mouthfeel. Judicious toast lets it all play out beautifully. A pitch-perfect example of the vintage profile. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc.