The Cuvelier family acquired Clos Fourtet in St-Emilion and installing Stéphane Derenoncourt and Jean-Claude Berrouet as consultant winemakers. Since then, two decades of vintages have charted Bordeaux’s evolving climate.
In a vintage that is complex if not exactly heterogeneous, Pomerol is, if not exactly heterogeneous, then certainly complex – more complex perhaps than any other leading appellation.
Pomerol 2022 is a story of heterogeneity, despite summer drought conditions that were brutal in their severity. The highs are extraordinarily high, even if the lows are perhaps a little lower, reports our Bordeaux correspondent, Colin Hay.