La Chenade 2022 (750ML)

92-93 JS / 91-93 WI / 91-93 JD / 92 DE /91 JA / 90-92 VM

A focused and polished red with berry, chocolate and walnut character. Medium body. Focused center palate and a fresh finish. Coffee-bean and ripe-seed character. Vivid. - James Suckling

La Chenade 2022 is a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc and has a deep garnet-purple color. It zips out of the glass with ready-to-go notes of juicy black and red plums, boysenberries, and Indian spices, followed by hints of charcoal, iron ore, and dusty soil. The medium to full-bodied palate is plump and juicy, delivering impressive freshness and a soft texture, finishing long and lifted. - Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Independent

The 2022 Château La Chenade is a step up over the Saintayme at this point and should be terrific. Black cherries, mulberries, chocolate, and spicy, floral notes all emerge from the glass, and it's medium-bodied, with beautiful tannins and outstanding length. - Jeb Dunnuck

Bright and forward, open and nicely detailed with plush and well textured tannins, so juicy and also plump giving a sense of bounce and real life force to this wine. A nice combination of weight, fruit, acidity and minerality leaving the finish with a salty, liquorice aspect. Has a really gentle appeal, tannins are so super fine and smooth - this has such sweet charm and delicacy while still giving a mouthful of flavour. Not overworked at all and I love the finish. Could drink this already. 3.60pH. A yield of 28hl/ha. Ageding in 30% new oak. Harvest 7 September - 9 September. - Georgina Hindle, Decanter

A real sign of the vintage to see how the Durantou wines performed in Lalande in the heat of 2022 and here we have fully ripe blackcurrant and black cherry fruits, sweet and highly spiced, careful extraction as you would expect, annd this is good quality, but for me the mark of the vintage are the clove notes on the finish. 30% new oak. Sandy-gravel soils, 28hl/h yield. Harvest dates September 1 to 9. - Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

The 2022 La Chenade was picked between 1 and 9 September and raised in 30% new oak. This has a perfumed and floral bouquet, with iris and peony infusing the black and red fruit and a light marine influence in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins, good depth, white pepper and clove filtering through the earthy fruit on the finish. So much character and personality in this Lalande-de-Pomerol. - Neal Martin, Vinous Media