2022 CHÂTEAU LES ORMES DE PEZ Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel Saint Estèphe, Lea & Sandeman

CHÂTEAU LES ORMES DE PEZ

2022 Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel Saint Estèphe

Grapes Cab Sauv, Petit Verdot, Cab Franc, Merlot
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Saint Estèphe
Classification Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel
ABV 14%

51% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot. 45% new oak. 14.3% alc. 84 IPT. 3.88 pH This is a fascinating wine, given that it has a sonorous Merlot core, perfectly judged additions of the Cabernets, and a twist of Petit Verdot for good measure. Taut, bright, thrillingly tense and marvellously juicy right in the centre of its core, this is likely to be one of the steals of the vintage as long as the price remains under control. I imagine this wine will run for a good two decades, but I fancy it will kick off early and look near-perfect from the off, so make a diary date because 2022 Ormes de Pez is one of the hidden gems in this magnificent vintage. Rating: 17.5 Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (May 2023)


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In line with the rest of the St Estèphe appellation in terms of its plum colour and vivid violet rim, this is already promising to be easy to drink, with supple velvet tannins, cocoa bean, caramel, sweet blackberry fruits, fig tart, patisserie cream, spice red peppers, it retains the appealingly unfussy welcome of Ormes de Pez even with the ripe signatures of the vintage. Blend finished February. Quantity down 40% after hail in June. 45% new oak. Drinking range: 2025 - 2036 Rating: 93 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (May 2023)

The 2022 Ormes de Pez is matured in 45% new oak for a planned 16 months. It has a perfumed and floral bouquet, quite sensual for a Saint-Estèphe, developing blue fruit with time in the glass. The oak is neatly enmeshed. The palate is medium-bodied with quite a high-toned and racy opening. Good acidity, the Merlot (51%) occupies the driving seat and ensures its silky-textured finish, a mote of chalk dust on the aftertaste. Just needs its élevage to knit it all together. Drinking range: 2027 - 2044 Rating: 92-94 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (May 2023)

It was a great visit to Lynch Bages to taste the Cazes family wines. Despite being at the end of a very long day the Ormes de Pez was a real delight to taste, bright and charming. Always a favourite en primeur the 2022 does not disappoint. With a quite open-knit spread of finely ripe plum and black berries on the attack - this becomes more serious and more textured in the mouth, with fine sophisticated tannic rub, a suede-like scrape on the long finish adds some mineral feel and bright lift. The wonderful Merlot, here at 51%, takes centre stage, resulting in a wine that leads on joy and yet is perfectly poised and sophisticated. The 2022 release from Ormes de Pez is fabulous, but is sadly heavily depleted after the family lost 40% of the fruit here in the devastating June hailstorm. Dig in while you can. L&S (Apr 2023)

Château Les Ormes de Pez

Château Les Ormes-de-Pez (French for The Elms of Pez) is a winery in the Saint-Estèphe appellation of the Bordeaux wine region of France, near the hamlet of Pez. The wine produced here was classified as one of 9 Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnels in the 2003 listing. Though this classification is currently annulled, it is expected to be revived by the 2009 vintage, but without use of the quality divisions such as "exceptionnel". The Château and buildings date from 1792, constructed after the division and sale of Château de Pez as a result of the French Revolution. During the 19th century it was owned by Marcel Alibert, also the owner of Château Belgrave, until it was sold in 1927 to the Société Civile du Haut Médoc. Financial trouble forced the estate to be sold on to Jean-Charles Cazes in 1930, who passed it on to his son André Cazes. To date the estate is owned by the Cazes family, also owners of Château Lynch-Bages. For many years the vinification took place at Lynch-Bages, but the cuvier and chai of Ormes-de-Pez were modernised before the 1981 vintage. After a long period of management by Jean-Michel Cazes, he has been succeeded by his son Jean-Charles Cazes. The vineyard area, divided into two blocks north and south of the village of Saint-Estèphe, extends 33 hectares (82 acres), with the grape varieties of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot. The annual production of the Grand vin Château Ormes de Pez is typically 15,000 cases.

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