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Michael Grimm

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2022 Château La Conseillante: 97-99 Punkte 

"...ganz klare, saubere, dichte, schwarzbeerige Frucht, ganz viel Süße am Gaumen, viel Charme, sehr gute Säure, sehr gute Tannine, Cassis, feines Leder, soft, süß, ganz große Finesse, viel Cassis im Finale, lang und tolle Tannine." (04/2023) 

Decanter: 100 Punkte 
"The best La Conseillante I’ve tasted. Intensely fragrant: blackcurrants, cherries, roses, violets. Juicy, bright and alive, with acidity lifting the expression. Many Pomerols bring power and spice; this is relaxed and silky, with summer berries and a cooling finish of blueberries, liquorice, crushed stones, slate and minty cola. A captivating wine in which every element sings in harmony. Vibrant, joyful and delicious now, but destined to age beautifully. Effortless winemaking from Marielle Cazeau. 85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc." - Georgie Hindle (12/2024)


2022 Houyi - Pritchard Hill Realm Cellars : 97+ Punkte 

"…große, warme, fleischige Frucht, Kirschen, Cassis, schöne Süße am Gaumen, auch hier sehr warm, große Balance, ganz klare, reife Frucht, große Finesse, langes Finale" (09/2024) 

Decanter: 97 Punkte
"Farming for this site was taken over in January, with pruning led by Benoit Touquette and executed by David Abreu’s team. “We set the vineyard and canopy up for success,” says Scott Becker. With its southern exposure on Pritchard Hill, the site retained heat even at night, leaving the vines no chance to rest, making sorting critical in 2022. For all the hand-wringing over the vintage’s challenges, this is an impressive wine. Alluring aromas of unsmoked tobacco, fresh sage, coriander cream, and baking spices lead into a vibrant fruit profile—red, black, and blue-toned, with excellent density. Sweet cedar and mocha flood the palate, delivering the characteristic Realm richness, yet with notable precision. The ripe tannins carry through, layered with dried sage, thyme, and rosemary, all lifted by perfumed high tones. Full-bodied and structured, this wine balances richness with tension, promising a strong future." - Jonathan Cristaldi (02/2025)
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Vinous

98 POINTS

2022 Château La Conseillante: 98 Punkte 

The 2022 La Conseillante is a gorgeous, racy wine. Pliant and super-expressive, La Conseillante is positively stellar. The 2022 is a vertical, statuesque Conseillante. As alluring as the 2022 is at this stage, it also clearly needs cellaring to be at its finest. Time in the glass releases the aromatics, along with brisk acids that keep things in check. Blood orange, lavender, spice, menthol and espresso linger on the sustained finish. Technical Director Marielle Cazaux turned out what is quite possibly the most elegant wine in Pomerol. The 2022 is one of my favorite recent vintages here. The 2022 was harvested from September 5th for Merlots through to the 20th, when the last Cabernet Franc was brought in. It was aged in 70% new wood, 27% once-filled barrels and 3% amphora. - Antonio Galloni (01/2025)


2022 Houyi - Pritchard Hill Realm Cellars: 95 Punkte 
The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Houyi Vineyard is a dense, explosive wine. It shows the radiant, solar style of the year but with the body and texture that so many wines lack. This is the first vintage Realm made following their acquisition of this site, and they conducted the heaviest sorting here. Super-ripe red cherry, red plum, mocha, spice, lavender and orange peel stain the palate. This is a stellar wine for the year. - Antonio Galloni (12/2024)
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James Suckling

98 POINTS
2022 Château La Conseillante: 98 Punkte 
The freshness and aromatics are really beautiful. Flowers such as orange blossoms with hints of nutmeg and cinnamon. Medium-bodied, this has ultrafine tannins that run the length of the wine and caress every inch. Very elegant and vivid at the end. Such refinement and loveliness for the vintage. 87% merlot and 13% cabernet franc. Try after 2028. (01/2025)
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Jeb Dunnuck

98+ POINTS
2022 Château La Conseillante: 98+ Punkte 
The 2022 Château La Conseillante is pure brilliance and is up with the crème de la crème from this estate. Gorgeous blue fruits, sweet cassis, violets, spice, incense, truffle, and blood orange all define the aromatics, and it's a sensationally pure, full-bodied, voluptuous, and perfectly balanced Conseillante that has integrated tannins, a deep, layered mid-palate, and incredible length. A blend of 87% Merlot and 13% Cabernet Franc, aged in 70% new French oak, the 2022 hit 14% alcohol with a pH of 3.65. It's just about impossible to resist even today, but it's going to take 8-10 years to hit its prime drinking plateau and should see its 30th birthday in fine form. (02/2025)


2022 Houyi - Pritchard Hill Realm Cellars: 96 Punkte 
The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Houyi Vineyard comes from a vineyard on Pritchard Hill and is based on 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Petit Verdot. It has plenty of mountain structure and minerality as well as beautiful black and blue-tinged fruits, some violet, leafy tobacco, and foresty, herbal undertones, medium to full-bodied richness, and ripe, polished tannins. It's a pure, polished, elegant Realm that will age gracefully over the coming 15 years. (01/2025)
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Lisa Perrotti-Brown

98-100 POINTS
2022 Château La Conseillante: 98-100 Punkte 
A blend of 87% Merlot and 13% Cabernet Franc, the 2022 La Conseillante has a pH of 3.65 and is aging in 70% new oak. The yield was 33 hl/ha. It starts off with an opaque purple color, then POW! It explodes from the glass with a spectacular nose of rose oil, star anise, garrigue, and candied violets, giving way to a powerful core of blueberry preserves, juicy black plums, and Morello cherries, plus a waft of Sichuan pepper. The medium to full-bodied palate is bright, vibrant, and impactful, delivering layer upon layer of intense flavors with a super-plush texture and fantastic tension, finishing epically long and wonderfully perfumed. A masterpiece—brava, Marielle! (05/2023)


2022 Houyi - Pritchard Hill Realm Cellars: 96 Punkte 
The 2022 Houyi Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot. Deep garnet-purple colored, it is quite closed at the moment, needing a lot of coaxing to bring out notes of plum preserves, blueberry compote, and black cherries, giving way to hints of tar, star anise, and cumin seed. Full-bodied, the palate is dense with black fruit preserves layers, supported by firm, grainy tannins and just enough freshness, finishing long and opulent. Houyi Vineyard was picked through the 2022 heatwave. This fruit needed a lot of selection (nearly 30% of the fruit was discarded), making this a stellar effort. (09/2024)
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Parker – Wine Advocate

100 POINTS
2022 Château La Conseillante: 100 Punkte 
"The 2022 La Conseillante is just as exquisite in bottle as it was en primeur. Wafting from the glass with an exotic bouquet of mulberries, black raspberries and plums mingled with notions of black truffle, burning embers, violets, mint and licorice, it's full-bodied, velvety and enveloping, with a fleshy, even unctuous core of fruit underpinned by a broad chassis of sweet, powdery and perfectly integrated tannin. This is the most lavish, sensual La Conseillante of the last decade, with the most texture and density, yet it remains unerringly precise and harmonious. It's a blend of 87% Merlot and 13% Cabernet Franc. - William Kelley (03/2025)


2022 Houyi - Pritchard Hill Realm Cellars: 94 Punkte 
Realm's 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Houyi Vineyard includes 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. Aromas of black cherries, blackberry notes and hints of dried herbs mark the nose, while the medium- to full-bodied palate is framed by dusty tannins, which exhibit a slight coarseness on the finish. This is impressively concentrated but less than charming at this stage. Give it a few years in the cellar. - Joe Czerwinski (06/2025)