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(Jan. 22, 2025) …<\/strong> Continuing with my Bordeaux visit and tastings from January 2025. This is the second last of the Consultant tastings. This is a tasting that had over 70 wines. We were well into tasting at this point, having been in Bordeaux for almost 20 days. I determined that the Derenoncourt style was not my favourite of all the consultant tasting this is the one that had the most wines I “passed” on giving a score to. I am sure they make and consult on some great wines, but it just wasn’t for me.<\/p>\n To clarify, I used my three-star system again: Good\/Better\/Best – one wine got a best ranking here, which is on-par for most of the consultant tastings we did – but this one got more one-star nods than most.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LES VINS ROUGE<\/strong><\/p>\n THREE star wines …<\/strong><\/em> TWO star wines<\/strong><\/em> Chateau Capet Guillier 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru<\/span><\/em> Chateau de Candale 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru <\/em> <\/span> Chateau Garraud 2022 Lalande-de-Pomerol<\/em><\/span> Chateau Haut Selve 2022 Graves<\/em><\/span> Chateau La Croix Lartigue 2022 Castillon – Cotes de Bordeaux<\/em><\/span> Chateau Moulinet 2022 Pomerol<\/em><\/span> Chateau Prieure-Lichine 2022 Margaux<\/em><\/span> Chateau Tour de Capet 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru <\/em> <\/span> ONE star wines …<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n LES VINS BLANC<\/strong><\/p>\n ONE star wines<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Chateau Hostens Picant 2022 Cuvee des Demoiselles<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Jan. 22, 2025) … Continuing with my Bordeaux visit and tastings from January 2025. This is the second last of the Consultant tastings. This is a tasting that had over 70 wines. We were well into tasting at this point, having been in Bordeaux for almost 20 days. I determined that the Derenoncourt style was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Chateau Rol Valentin 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru ![\"Darenon](\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Darenon_-_Rol.png\")
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elegant and effective, nice dark fruit and a little bit of spice – a really pleasant glass of wine: upfront fruit with nice acidity to lift the finish <\/p>\n
Chateau Cadet Bon 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru <\/em> <\/span>
Bon? – I would say – this is a delightful glass with lots of dark fruit, namely cherry, with blackberry and a little vanilla mixed in <\/p>\n
pretty, floral with some violet notes, cherry fruit, a little raspberry and even a hint of strawberry – good acidity <\/p>\n
well-structure – cocoa, mocha, chocolate – black cherry, smooth and sippable with good acid backbone <\/p>\n
bright cherry fruit, lively with nice clean mouthfeel and acidity – tannins are silky <\/p>\n
there is a nice minerality here with some dark fruit, pencil shavings and smoke – but it is always the fruit here. big bold black fruit <\/p>\n
nice red fruit, red licorice, and good acidity – nice cherry kirsch like finish <\/p>\n
bright and fruity, acidity kicks in and cleans up – decent tannin bite – but that upfront fruit kicks serious ass <\/p>\n
cassis, blackberry, coffee bean and chocolate – deep and dark with a delicious mouthfeel and some spicy-smoky notes <\/p>\n
nice dark fruit with a bright dark cherry note and some really good acidity <\/p>\n![\"Darenon](\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Darenon_-_glasses.png\")
Chateau Boutisse 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Callac 2022 Graves – prestige<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Claud Bellevue 2022 Castillon – Cotes de Bordeaux<\/em><\/span>
Chateau D’Agassac 2022 Haut-Medoc – Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel<\/em><\/span>
Chateau de Malleret 2022 Haut-Medoc – Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel<\/em><\/span>
Chateau La France Delhomme 2022 Medoc – Cru Bourgeois<\/em><\/span>
Chateau La Rousselle 2022 Fronsac<\/em><\/span>
Chateau la Tour Figeac 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru<\/em><\/span>
Chateau le Chatelet 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Les Dames de la Renardiere 2022 Bordeaux Superieur<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Lestruelle 2022 Medoc – Cru Bourgeois<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Louis 2022 Saint Emilion Grand Cru<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Paveil de Luze 2022 Margaux – Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Preuillac 2022 Medoc – Cru Bourgeois Superieur<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Puygueraud 2022 Francs Cotes de Bordeaux<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Sanctus 2022 La Bienfaisance du Chateau Sanctus<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Seguin 2022 Pessac-Leognan<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Teyssier 2022 Montagne Saint Emilion<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Trigant 2022 Pessac-Leognan<\/em><\/span>
Chateau Villa Bel Air 2022 Graves<\/em><\/span>
Clos Vieux Taillefer 2022 Pomerol<\/em><\/span>
Domaine Simon Blanchard 2022 Au Champ de la Fenetre<\/em><\/span>
Loudenne le Chateau 2022 Medoc – Cru Bourgeois<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Chateau les Charmes Godard 2022 Franc Cotes de Bordeaux<\/em><\/span>
Vignobles Fraigneau 2022 Dupin<\/em><\/span>
Vignobles Fraigneau 2021 Dupin<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Darenon](\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Darenon_-_top.png\")
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