Château Le Boscq

Solid fruit here with spices like cardamon and cloves. Medium-bodied with a pretty core of fruit in the center and chewy tannins. Typical for the appellation.

Smells fresh and fragranced, bright and clear. Crystalline fruit purity on the palate, such energy and focus too with bite and a cool blue fruit and graphite charm to this. Quite compact and tannic right now, through beautifully textured and controlled, just a little pent up, lovely confidence and concentration, the fruit is ripe and fleshy and you really do get the gravel terroir in the glass. Gorgeous frame and succulence, lovely refinement, and supreme drinkability. Great. 2% Cabernet Franc completed the blend. Ageing 12 months in oak barrels, 37% new, 4 batches in amphora. Harvest 9 September - 3 October. HVE certified.

The 2022 Le Boscq is super-concentrated and yet also vibrant. Dark red/purplish fruit, cigar box, lavender, rose petal, licorice and pomegranate infuse the 2022 with notable depth. Yields were just 25 hectoliters per hectare after hail in June reduced the potential crop dramatically. This has real potential.

A powerful wine from the soils of St Estèphe, slate, graphite, very Left Bank, this is a brilliant Le Boscq that is serious, well structured, big black pepper finish. Mouthwatering levels of freshness also, this is a great value choice. 50% of the crop was lost to hail in June, giving 25hl/h yield overall.

An absolutely stunning Saint-Estèphe, the 2022 Château Le Boscq offers thrilling levels of plum and cassis fruits that slowly give way to more gravelly earth, licorice, and violet notes with air. Full-bodied, concentrated, and beautifully balanced, with remarkable purity of fruit, this is a seriously good 2022 that will need 4-5 years of bottle age and keep for decades. If it shows this well from bottle, it will easily be the finest wine I've tasted from this château.

Grand caractère, avec ce fruit noir profond et ce tannin savoureux et agréablement enrobé. Il finit long sur une finesse qui lui est propre. Cette année encore, le vin gagne en précision et affirme son style.

C’est sa fraicheur qui nous attrape dès la mise en bouche, annoncée par des parfums d’iris et ronce. Voilà un vin se démarquant par sa gestion de la nature solaire du millésime. On a su vendanger au bon moment pour être fidèle au profil bordelais. En prime, des tanins dessinés et une texture aérienne.

This is a sensational Le Boscq with tremendously expressive fruit and superb length. The tannins are fascinating, drying, firm, juicy and also super-fine.  They underpin the entire structure of the wine allowing the deep, dark blackberry and cherry fruit to shine. This is a triumph in 2022. 

Le Boscq se révèle de manière filigrane, mais pertinente, de manière très attachée à son terroir. Ainsi, il révèle des nuances de graphite mêlée à des parfums de baies noires et de réglisse. Le palais me semble moins timide que le bouquet. Le vin a du corps et dispose de tannins charnus, puissants mais pas envahissants, et c'est bien là une des clés du millésime : l'harmonie dans un contexte de puissance et d'ampleur ! Une très belle performance de Le Boscq.

The wine from this Vignobles Dourthe property has been made with pre-fermentation cold maceration and the élevage includes amphorae alongside the barrels. I like the perfumed aromatics, the nose dominated by fragrant rose petals, dark chocolate, violet cream and white peach. The palate is just as dark and perfumed, supported by a rich grip of tannins, tight-knit and polished; this structure tightly clamps the palate, from the middle onwards, but happily the tannins feel integrated and correct, with a sense of tight-knit ripeness, so on the whole this works. It will just need a long time to come around, for my palate anyway.

The 2022 Château Le Boscq stands as an unyielding fortress, with layer upon layer of tannins that demand at least a decade to reveal its hidden depths. Even amidst a season of abundant, ripe fruit, Château Le Boscq retains an impeccable freshness. As you taste it, a structure reminiscent of dark chocolate gradually unfolds alongside mulberry notes, richly intense without being overbearing, offering a distinctive focal point.

Dark purple with violet hue and black core. Well structured nose with ripe fruit, blackcurrants, cherries and hints of red forest berries, subtle oak. On the palate well structured and balanced with firm yet ripe tannins and very good length.

La grêle du 26 juin a fait perdre la moitié de la récolte au château, mais ce qu'il en reste est de haute tenue. La robe est grenat sombre avec des arômes de boîte à cigares et de mûres. Le vin est très élégant et d'une belle longueur. Avec la fraîcheur, il a pris un coup de jeune, les tannins sont présents, il reste Saint-Estèphe dans l'âme.

This is very impressive indeed and brilliantly expressive of its St Estèphe identity. Dark fruited, slightly spicy, full, rich, plump and really just a lovely mouthful of bright dark berries – a little briary and a little wild as they should be. There’s a hint of charcuterie, game and wood smoke, but this is all about the fruit. A little dark chocolate and a touch of graphite pencil shavings too. The tannins are considerable, but so friendly and they just seem to pick out the details over the very long evolution of the wine to the horizon. A great advert for the vintage and the appellation.

Inky dark purple core and hue. Fine purity offering mild oak, ripe dark berries, cassis, plum and violet. The palate is youthful and dense with fine proportions between refreshing tannin, a crisp acidity, ripe dark fruit and balanced oak with a long and muscular finish.

Located close to Calon Ségur on an outcrop of deep Garonne clay and gravel, Le Boscq has performed exceptionally well in 2022. The nose is complex: dark tobacco, pencil lead, vine smoke, and even a hint of truffle. Very appealing; very Saint-Estèphe. The palate continues in the same vein; with solid but not astringent tannins and a real depth of fruit, Sichuan pepper and licorice in support. A good example of what I might again dare to call enlightned austerity.