2022 de Sales

Red and black fruits, savory flowers, spice, and menthol notes all emerge from the 2022 Château Sales, a pure, seamless, very pretty, elegant wine from this team, a medium-bodied, round, supple, elegant Pomerol that will need to be drunk over the coming decade.

The 2022 Château de Sales lacks a bit of fruit intensity and vigor on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied and a little hard on the mid-palate with dry tannins and a sapid finish. It just needs more flesh around its bones. I really wanted to like this more than I did.

A strong effort from this large Pomerol property, the 2022 De Sales offers up aromas of red fruits, plums and licorice, followed by a medium to full-bodied, supple and fleshy palate that's ample, layered and velvety, exhibiting a touch more concentration than is habitual at this address without compromising the elegant house style.