Chateau Berliquet

Chateau Berliquet is among the most ancient names in St-Emilion, with the name appearing on the Belleyme maps as early as 1768. The wine was already selling at a high price in 1784, one of the oldest registered examples of wines known by a proprietary name.

The estate was acquired by Count Louis de Carles in 1918, with his grandson Patrick de Lesquen now running the estate. The Carles family was famous for setting up the Bordeaux hospital in the 14^th century.

Adjacent to Chateau Magdelaine and Chateau Canon, there is about 9 ha of vineyards, planted with 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.

I have recently tasted the 2001 vintage and below is my tasting note:

 

Good quality St-Emilion of medium ruby color, the wine has a reasonably intense nose, showing developing characters and fair complexity, with blackberry, plum, vanilla, cloves, chocolate and mint. Medium in acidity, the tannin is ripe and silky, of fairly full-bodied and showing reasonable concentrated flavors of blackberry, plum, cloves and toast. The wine is of balance but has only a fairly short finish. It is ready to drink now though can benefit from further ageing of another 2-3 years.