Chateau Meyney 2022 Saint-Estephe 750ml

The 2022 Meyney has a more flattering, perhaps flamboyant bouquet than the Tronquoy, though it is just as well defined, the fruit a little richer and fuller. The palate is medium-bodied but with assertive tannins, layered red and black fruit laced with white pepper and allspice. Quite rounded on the finish, where it succeeds is in maintaining delineation and not going gung-ho. This Meyney may well be meliorating in bottle... one to watch. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting in London.

Score: 94 points -- Neal Martin, Vinous, 2026