Château Picque Caillou Pessac Leognan 2022

Cinnamon and blackberry juice aromas lead to a wine that is still young and structured. It has a succulent character, black currant and spice flavors from wood aging. Drink this rich wine from 2028.

The 2022 Picque Caillou is intriguing, to say the least. It offers up an exciting mélange of dark red/purplish fruit, leather, spice, tobacco, menthol and dried rose petal. There is a bit of edginess in the tannin, but also quite a bit of depth. Élevage will be critical here, and yet the potential is evident.

I loved the 2022 Château Picque Caillou as well. Revealing a saturated plum/purple hue, it offers up a great nose of leafy herbs, ripe red and black fruits, and scorched earth. The oak is a little bit of a sore thumb, but this has good mid-palate depth as well as length.

There is a lactic note on the nose, with hints of goat cheese and smoke that don’t dominate. Olives, currants and black cherries as well. Structured and quite chewy on the palate, with a medium to full body at the end. A bit austere at this stage, but should get better in two years.