Couvent des Jacobins (Futures Pre-Sale) 2022

Professional Ratings

• 96 James Suckling
  This is a really racy red with blackberries and mineral. Salty undertones. Medium to full body. Really solid and precise in the center palate. Long and racy. 82% merlot, 14% cabernet franc, and 4% petit verdot. From organically grown grapes.
  Barrel Sample: 95-96
• 95 Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2022 Couvent Des Jacobins comes from a great terroir located just beside the village of Saint-Emilion. Made from 82% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Petit Verdot that's sill resting in 45% new oak, it has a ripe, black and blue-fruited style as well as medium to full-bodied richness, ripe, supple tannins, solid mid-palate depth, and some classic leafy herb and graphite aromas and flavors. Tasted twice with consistent notes.
  Barrel Sample: 93-95
• 94 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Bursting with aromas of sweet blackberries, cherries, rose petals and licorice, the 2022 Couvent des Jacobins is medium to full-bodied, fleshy and charming, with a succulent core of fruit and a seamless, enveloping profile. It will offer a broad drinking window.
  Barrel Sample: 92-94
• 93 Decanter
  Gorgeous aromatic intensity on the nose, fragrant and open, really inviting. Salty, mineral tang is at the fore giving quite a lean and clean expression with purity rather than overt density or plushness. Tannins are slick and fine, giving a relatively straight and direct frame while the black fruit has energy and drive. Lovely expression, easy to enjoy still with bite and tension and a touch of density on the finish. Crystalline and clean. Maybe a touch watery.
  Barrel Sample: 93