Varietals: 70% Merlot, 27% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot
94 Points Decanter
Quite a fragrant nose, really floral and heavily scented with black berry fruit and some red cherry notes. Crisp and chalky, this has a lovely fresh bite and tang to the strawberry fruit, more red on the palate with a clear, crystalline base of powdery minerality. A touch tense in terms of focus but there’s nice softness too, expanding slowly with a long length. An encouraging second wine with some underlying power. Clean and precise. A little toasted on the finish, graphite, cedar, coffee and dark chocolate. 3.70pH. A yield of 35hl/h. First vintage under director Axel Heinz. Julien Viaud consultant.
92 Points James Suckling
Lightly baked red cherries and sweet strawberries at first, but the slightly baked character gets blown off in the glass as you give it some time, revealing aromas of fresher red berries, hibiscus and minerals. Fruity on the palate but tense at the core, with fresh, fine-grained tannins and a juicy, tight-wound finish. Better from 2026.
90 Points Decanter
A ripe and concentrated nose with hints of sweetness to the black and red berry fruit. Smooth and silky, this is friendly and approachable with chalky-edged, cool blue fruit, fine but grippy tannins and minty, mineral and oak-spiced undercurrents. Feels really well made, purposeful and nicely detailed, while being easy to approach and enjoy right away.
90 Points Vinous
The 2022 Chevalier de Lascombes is a very pleasant second wine, one that is not trying to be too much. Ripe red cherry fruit, blood orange, spice, menthol and a touch of spice all build nicely in this gentle, open-knit Margaux. This is very good for what it is. (Drink between 2024-2032)
Winemaker Notes
Chevalier de Lascombes is the second wine from the Grand Cru Classe Chateau Lascombes in Margaux, which has established itself as the estate’s “other” wine with its own unique personality. Developed with the same care and attention taken to make the first wine, Chevalier de Lascombes comes from selected parcels that are distinct from those used in the elaboration of the first one. The blend consists of Merlot (68%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (32%). The Chevalier de Lascombes 2022 presents all the typicity of a great Margaux with a harmony between smoothness and refinement, which makes this wine perfectly consumable during its first ten years.
