Descripción

Este valor seguro de Margaux (Médoc) da un paso más allá en su ascendente evolución con esta añada, aún forjándose en bodega. La notable resiliencia del viñedo, en gran porcentaje viejo, la diversidad de su terroir y el saber hacer preciso y meticuloso de su equipo tanto en el campo como en bodega ha alumbrado un grand vin dotado de gran riqueza, taninos finos, un largo final y, sobre todo, una sorprendente frescura inusual en un año cálido y seco. Simplemente excepcional. 

La entrega de este vino está prevista en el segundo semestre de 2025.

Ficha técnica

La bodega
Château Giscours
Tipo
Tinto
Añada
2022
Grado
13.5% vol.
Variedad
64% Cabernet sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Cabernet franc, 3% Petit verdot
Origen
Margaux

Cata

Temperatura de servicio
Se recomienda servir a 16 °C.

Viñedo y elaboración

Descripción
Viñedo orgánico al 50%.
Superficie
95 hectáreas.
Edad
Cepas de 4 a 10 años (el 15%); de 10 a 25 años (el 50%) y de más de 25 años (el 33%).
Suelo
Gravas profundas del Garona.
Clima
El tiempo correspondiente a esta añada 2022 fue inusualmente cálido y seco.
Rendimiento
27 hectolitros por hectárea.
Cosecha
Vendimia manual efectuada del 1 al 29 de septiembre.
Vinificación
Clasificación manual y óptica. Fermentación en tanques de hormigón y acero inoxidable. 35 días de maceración a 28 °C.
Envejecimiento
17 meses de crianza en barricas de roble francés, el 50% nuevas.

Opinión de los críticos

James Suckling:

This is a big move forward for Giscours. Full-bodied yet agile and fresh with tannins that are precise and integrated, with great beauty and length. Well-structured and vivid. Extremely fine yet defined tannins, and then it opens like a butterfly.

Decanter:

A seriously impressive and beguiling Giscous 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, fineseed, 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. 3.70pH. A yield of 27hl/ha, the lowest ever. No Sirene de Giscours this year. 100% grand vin. Ageing 17 months, 50% new oak. 10-15% press wine. Tasted twice.

The Wine Advocate:

With the 2022 Giscours, this estate takes another step up, delivering a deep and characterful wine redolent of cherries, dark berries, violets, peony and forest floor. Medium to full-bodied, broad shouldered and layered, it's deep and elegantly muscular, with impressive concentration, abundant but refined tannins and a structural authority reminiscent of the great Giscours vintages of the 1970s. Why is it so good? There are many reasons, but one is the high proportion of old vines—almost 60% of the blend deriving from vines that are over 50 years old—in a vintage that favored vines with deep, well-established root systems. Another is the increasing precision of harvesting at this address: Giscours's old vines are frequently co-planted with younger replacements that have filled any gaps in the ranks over the years; so, blocks are now picked in two or three passages instead of all at once, with the younger vines picked first.