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Antonio Galloni

Vinous

The 2024 Berliquet is delicate and understated, in the style of the year. Floral aromatics accent a core of blue-toned fruit, new leather, licorice and dark spice. The 2024 is classy, elegant and polished from start to finish. The most important signature of the 2024 is a palpable refinement in the tannin profile, even in a challenging vintage. This is an intriguing and highly promising wine from a château that is still finding its way. Tasted four times. 04/2025

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Neal Martin

Vinous

The 2024 Berliquet was picked from 20 September to 3 October at 43 hl/ha and aged in 37% new oak, 22% amphoras. This has a much more oyster-tinged, black olive-scented bouquet that distinguishes it from the 2024 Canon. It's quite intense in style. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins, although I find them not as chiseled as the Canon's. It has good weight and substance on the finish in the context of the season, but this will require two or three years in bottle and should then drink well for fifteen to twenty more. 04/2025

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William Kelley

Robert Parker/Wine Advocate

Unwinding in the glass with brooding aromas of cassis, raspberries, rose petals, violets and pencil shavings, the 2024 Berliquet is medium to full-bodied, polished and muscular, with broad shoulders and a dense, chalky core. It's a blend of 60% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Franc and (a new addition) 1% Malbec. This estate continues to stand out next to is stablemate, Canon, for its more powerful style and darker fruit profile. 04/2025

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Jeb Dunnuck

Jeb Dunnuck

The 2024 Château Berliquet comes from slightly more clay soils compared to its stablemate, Canon, and is always a bigger, richer wine. Darker black cherries, tobacco, scorched earth, and hints of chocolate all emerge from this incredibly successful 2024. It's medium-bodied, has plenty of mid-palate depth, ripe tannins, and outstanding length. The blend is 60% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Malbec, all of which will spend 16-18 months in 37% new barrels and 22% in amphora, from 43 hectoliters per hectare, hitting 13.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.37. 05/2025

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Jean-Marc Quarin

Jean-Marc Quarin

Couleur sombre et intense. Nez très aromatique, fin, fruité, subtil, se développant frais et floral à l'agitation du verre. Ravissant en entrée de bouche, très aromatique au milieu, le vin fond sur le palais juteux, subtil et noble dans son déroulé. Finale longue, parfumée, au grain fin. C'est très bon. Une grande réussite de l'année Assemblage : 60 % merlot, 39 % cabernet franc, 1 % malbec. Degré d'alcool : 13° - pH : 3,37. Rendement : 43 hl/ha. 04/2025

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James Suckling

James Suckling

A fresh and vivid wine with sliced lemons, lemongrass, pine needles and some red cherries. Medium-bodied with fine tannins and a tangy finish. Attractive energy to this. Nice depth. 60% merlot, 39% cabernet franc and 1% mablec. 04/2025