2012-CHÂTEAU-PETIT-VILLAGE-Pomerol

CHÂTEAU PETIT VILLAGE

2022 Pomerol

Grapes Cab Franc, Merlot, Cab Sauv
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Pomerol & Lalande de Pomerol
Village Pomerol

The 2022 Petit-Village, a blend of 68% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Franc and 7% Cabernet Sauvignon, is endowed with a ripe, slightly candied nose, lively red berry fruit tinged with blood orange. It responds well to aeration, cohering and gaining focus. The palate is well balanced, with slightly tertiary-infused black fruit, just a touch of piquancy toward the finish. There is a pleasing corpulence to this Pomerol, though it never quite engages full-throttle when some of its neighbors have in this vintage. This is an estate that has more to give, not now but in the future. Drinking range: 2028 - 2048 Rating: 91-93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (May 2023)


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65% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Franc, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon. 80% new oak. 14% alc. There is an overriding sense of coolness and refinement here, and while this might appear confident, controlled and calm, I have a nagging feeling that it makes Petit-Village feel a hint underpowered and lacking on the nose and mid-palate. Granted, this is a nicely balanced and quiet wine, but in this outstanding vintage, I am looking for a little more in the way of fireworks and energy. Rating: 17.5 Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (May 2023)

Cassis, mocha, coffee bean, densely packed but supple dark fruits. There is clear acidity and it is needed amid the intensity of the fruit, with everything offset by curls of attractive peony and rose notes. Harvest September 2 to 19 (but the begining was for the second wine). 10.5ha, 3rd year with the Moulin family as owners. Soft extraction, no pumpovers. 30hl/h yield, from a section of the vineyard with a lot of clays that kept freshness in this vintage. Guillaume Fredoux winemaker (the same team now works across both Petit Village and Beauregard). 45% new oak, 5% of 500l oak casks, 3.85ph, Drinking range: 2027 - 2042 Rating: 93 Jane Anson, Decanter (May 2023)

10.5-ha triangular vineyard opposite Beauregard, all on top of the plateau. Some deep, dry gravel near Vieux Château Certan where the oldest block is. The Moulin family (of Galeries Lafayette) are currently restructuring/replanting the vineyard. 65% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Franc, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon. The oldest block is a co-planting of the two Cabernets. In 2022, they added a new bit of kit that destems by density and rinses the dust off the grapes during the process. Cask sample. Some unusually savoury notes on the nose. Gentle texture with the tannin becoming evident only on the very end. Very glossy, polished tannins which become evident on the finish. Confident wine that suggests the property is being taken seriously. Drinking range: 2028 - 2042 Rating: 16.5+ Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (May 2023)

Château Petit Village

Up on the Pomerol plateau, just east of Catusseau, on ideal gravel and clay soil is Château Petit Village. A habitually complicated but unremarkable history comes to life with its purchase, in 1919 by the Ginestet family. This brought Petit Village into common ownership with Château Cos’d’Estournel and, later, Château Margaux. Despite its illustrious stable-mates, the Ginestet family’s tenure coincided with difficult times for Bordeaux estates, culminating in the disastrous frost of 1956 which wiped out vineyards across the region. In a move that seems bizarre in hindsight, much of Petit Village was replanted with Cabernet Sauvignon which made up an untypical greater portion of the vineyards until the 1970’s. Bruno Prats took control in 1971, having married into the family, and immediately set about replacing most of the Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot and modernising the winery, but sold Petit Village in 1989 in order to concentrate his efforts on Cos d’Estournel. The new owners of Château Petit Village were AXA Millésimes, who own it to this day, along with Château Pichon Longueville Baron in Pauillac and Château Suduiraut in Sauternes as well as operations in Hungary and Portugal. AXA’s stewardship has seen Jean Michel Cazes (of Lynch Bages fame) and latterly Christian Seely overseeing considerable improvements at Petit Village. One of the more noticeable improvements has been the building of a starkly modern extension to the winery. The 10.5ha of vineyards sit in a single triangular block wedged between Conseillante, Vieux Château Certan, Certan de May and Beauregard. Le Pin sits near enough to be counted as a neighbour. There are 75% Merlot and 18% Cabernet Franc, with the residual 7% Cabernet Sauvignon being among the highest proportions in Pomerol. The average age of the vines in 35 years old, although one plot of Merlot remains that was planted 1947.

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