Château Le Bon Pasteur Pomerol 2022

Château Le Bon Pasteur is the family estate of famed Bordeaux wine consultant, Michel Rolland. The estate has been in the Rolland family since the 1920's, and in 1979 Michel took over leadership after the death of his father. It is here that Michel began implementing vineyard and wine-making techniques that would help revolutionize modern wine-making.

Today, Michel runs still runs the vineyards and makes the wines for Château Le Bon Pasteur. The estate consists of 6.7 hectares of 21 plots of Merlot and Cabernet Franc vines spread out over the Pomerol appellation on a wide range of soil profiles: clay-gravel and gravelly sand, deep gravel, and a subsoil of sandy clay. The wines are a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. The grapes are hand-harvested, fermented in small oak barriques and steel tanks, and aged in French oak for 15 to 18 months, producing wines of incredible richness, concentration, and complexity.

96 Points — Jeff Leve

"Dark, in color, the wine exudes aromas of flowers, black raspberries, black cherries, chocolate, licorice and espresso. The wine is concentrated, lush, deep, creamy and fresh. The dark pit fruits are perfectly ripe. The tannins are silky. The finish is long, sapid and wide. The fruit really hangs in and you get to experience more of those opulent, chocolate-coated plums on the backend."