Revue de presse

Weinwisser - Juin 2023 -18/20

Verführerisches Bouquet, frisch gepflückte Heidelbeere, betörende Veilchen,Brombeerkonfitüre und Lakrikze. Am straffen durchtrainierten Gaumen mit geraldliniger Ausrichtung und engmaschigen Tannin-gerüst. Im konzentierten Finale Wildkirsche, dunkles Graphit und erhabene Adstringenz mit salzigem Extrakt. Grandiose Leistung von Jean-François Quenin

Decanter - MAI 2022 - 95 pts

95 : Bright and vibrant, a lovely cleanness , so pure, so fine and well worked, generous, appealing but the weight and the texture and the tannic integration is flawless. Round, easy, lovely black and red fruits, great chalky coolness with some minerality and liquorice, graphite tang on the finish. A wine you could drink today but know there’s power underneath. Compelling and a clear buy. Detailed, finessed, refined, balanced and crisp, juicy and charming. Everything you want in a wine.

Bettane et Desseauve - Mai 2023 - 95-96 pts

Coup de cœur Salin, vineux, salivant, profond avec une finale digne d’un premier grand cru classé, avec une assise crayeuse stylée. Un style plein et raffiné, avec l’intensité des meilleurs. A encaver en magnum.

Peter Moser Falstaff - Mai 2023 - 95 pts

Deep dark ruby garnet colour with opaque core and purple reflections, delicate brightening on the rim. Dark berries, hints of ripe cherries, fine savouriness, some nougat, inviting, multi-faceted bouquet. Powerful, juicy, ripe blackberries, fresh, very persistent, mineral and salty on the finish, certain ageing potential for many years.

Alexandre MA - Mai 2023 - 94-95 pts

Château de Pressac 2022 impresses with its ability to showcase fruitiness regardless of hot and dry growing seasons. Upon swirling the glass, notes of red plums, blackberries, raspberries, and hawthorn cake emerge, followed by hints of cinnamon and clove, creating a lively and delightful experience. The fine powdery tannins cover the palate, enhancing the already round and structured body, while the finish is enriched with a nutty flavor, adding layers of complexity. This

Vinous (Antonio Galloni) - Mai 2023 - 92-95 pts

The 2022 de Pressac is dense, rich and explosive. Ripe dark cherry, plum, spice, menthol, licorice and chocolate give the 2022 notable depth and complexity. The tannins are very well balanced for a young Pressac, while floral top notes lift the finish. Tasted two times.

The Wine Doctor - Mai 2023 - 93-95 pts

From the Quenin clan, on the eastern plateau, this kicks off with a dense, compact, savoury and lightly toasted nose, melding very concentrated yet perfumed plum and cherry fruits with rose petals and violets. The palate is very convincing, harmonious, with a minerally grain to it as – I suspect – a reflection of the limestone terroir, with silky fruit, modest texture and sweet black pepper. This is very convincing, very primary (as it should be) but with piles of sweet-and-savoury potential. Elegantly composed, convincing, harmonious and long, this is one of the more promising wines from the grand cru classé ranks. Tasted twice, with consistent findings.

Wine review on line - Mai 2023 - 93-95 pts

Rather balanced in its expression of ripe fruit, red and black. Underlying wet stone freshness pleases! With more “modern” hints of dark chocolate, which complement rather than dominate. This is quite good indeed. Tasted twice with similar notes.

Terre de Vins - Mai 2023 - 93-94 pts

Le premier nez est fermé puis s’ouvre sur la menthe et l’eucalyptus. Ce gage de fraicheur se confirmeen bouche pour un bel équilibre acidité-sucrosité et ce caractère juteux. L’ensemble est une promesse de garde avec une finale sur le bonbon acidulé. Le Château de Pressac signe un très beau 2022.

Jeb Dunnuck - Mai 2023 - 92-94 pts

The 2022 Château De Pressac should be terrific. It has a forward, supple, incredibly charming style carrying lots of spicy red fruits, notes of leather, dried herbs, and loamy earth, medium body, plenty of mid-palate depth, and ripe tannins. I love its overall balance, and this is a seriously good 2022 that's going to offer pleasure right out of the gate.

Colin Hay - Mai 2023 - 92-94 pts

This has pleasing graphite and pencil-shaving notes alongside the dark berry and stone fruit; quite saline in its minerality. A hint of the cedar to come and a lovely wild heathery note. Fresh and softly textured, but with a fully charged, compact and energetic core of crushed ripe berry fruit – a little cherry skin and its tannins around the edges. Impressive. Long and always fresh and sapid, with good intensity. Continuing the upward trajectory here.

Jancis Robinson - Mai 2023 - 16

six different bordeaux varieties planted here! Bright crimson. Quite a broad spread of interesting flavours on the nose. Sweet, almost sickly, start to the palate and some fairly light tannins on the end. Medium persistence. Juicy, transparent but not that dense a wine considering the vintage potential.

Georgina Hindle ( Decanter) - Mai 2023 - 95 pts

Bright and vibrant, a lovely cleanness , so pure, so fine and well worked, generous, appealing but the weight and the texture and the tannic integration is flawless. Round, easy, lovely black and red fruits, great chalky coolness with some minerality and liquorice, graphite tang on the finish. A wine you could drink today but know there’s power underneath. Compelling and a clear buy. Detailed, finessed, refined, balanced and crisp, juicy and charming. Everything you want in a wine.

In Wino Wine (Marie Roginska) - Mai 2023 -

Coup de Coeur : Le terroir et la mosaïque de cépages sont très propices à affronter les caprices plus en plus fréquents de la météo d'ajourd'hui. En effet, grâce à son assemblage unique, le vin a beaucoup de caractère en gardant le soyeux et l'élégance de Merlot, avec sa fraicheur et sa belle acidité. Sa structure et sa persistance sont remarquables, lui donnent son côté viril.

The Wine Doctor (Chris Kissack) - Mai 2023 - 87-89 pts

The second wine of Pressac, this has an honest, nicely defined, fruit-rich nose, with black raspberry and crunchy blackberry flavours. The palate builds on this honest start, intensifying the fruit, adding a wrapping of sweet, lightly toasted, smoky oak, as well as a ribbon of gently grained tannins. It finishes a little short, but it is just the second wine, and that doesn’t detract from the delicious, almost juicy composition I find here. I look forward to revisiting this after the élevage.

Vinous(Antonio Galloni) - Mai 2023 - 88-90 pts

The 2022 Tour de Pressac is a Plump, juicy second wine. Succulent red cherry, rose petal, lavender, and spice are front and center in this easygoing, charming Saint-Emilion. Pretty floral notes grace the finish.

Yves Beck - Mai 2023 - 90-91/100 pts

En humant le bouquet de la Tour de Pressac, deux fenêtre de réflexion s’entrouvrent : premièrement on se dit que le vin doit être délicieux et, deuxièmement, on peut supposer qu’au vu du niveau du second vin, la barre est placée haut ! Le palais confirme l’annonce du bouquet. Il dispose d’une agréable sucrosité, dès l’attaque, et également d’une bonne ampleur. Les tannins doivent être un peu mieux enveloppés en fin de bouche, mais deux faits sont déjà acquis : le vin est gourmand et i pourra être apprécié dans sa jeunesse.

Colin Hay - Mai 2023 - 92-94 pts

Up and coming. This has pleasing graphite and pencil-shaving notes alongside the dark berry and stone fruit; quite saline in its minerality. A hint of the cedar to come and a lovely wild heathery note. Fresh and softly textured, but with a fully charged, compact and energetic core of crushed ripe berry fruit – a little cherry skin and its tannins around the edges. Impressive. Long and always fresh and sapid, with good intensity. Continuing the upward trajectory here.

Falstaff (Peter Moser) -Mai 2023 - 93 pts

Dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, subtle brightening on the rim. Delicately spicy background, dark wild berries, hints of plums, some cassis and herbal savouriness. Juicy, round and elegant, fine acidity, ripe cherries. Balanced, already accessi- ble, salty finish; an animating wine for the table.

Yves Beck - Avril 2023 - 95-96 pts

La subtilité et la fraîcheur sont les éléments-clés du bouquet ! Le fruit aussi, évidemment, dans une mesure filigrane. En bouche le vin annonce une entrée en matière délicate, même élancée. Les tannins se révèlent lentement, pas à pas, pour finalement adopter une attitude conquérante et vigoureuse. L’accord avec la structure acide est idéal et cette dernière soulève la fraîcheur et la minéralité du terroir du plateau calcaire de St-Etienne-de-Lisse. Un grand vin de Château de Pressac !

Jane Anson - Avril 2023 - 95

Bright violet-tinged plum colour, vivid berry fruit on the opening, with velvety texture that you really see and feel in the glass. Impressive, this has great quality and personality, with crunchy red fruit fruit that has juice without sacrifcing depth and complexity. Stands out in the appellation. Tasted twice, excellent both times. Hubert de Boüard consultant, Jean-François Quenin owner.50% new oak, 5% amphora.

JM Quarin - Avril 2023 - 17.5 / 95 pts

Ma meilleure note donnée à ce cru en Primeur - Outsider Couleur sombre, intense et pourpre. Nez très aromatique, fin, fruité, pur, à la fois mûr et frais. Ample dès l'entrée en bouche, fondant au milieu, très aromatique, juteux, sans cesse accompagné par un gras fin, la construction est remarquable. Le vin laisse parler la suavité de son terroir, tout en rebondissant sur des saveurs complexes, fines, parfumées et nobles. C'est génial. Très grande persistance sans angle.

James Suckling - Avril 2023 - 94-95 pts

Ripe blackberry and cassis here with medium to full body and deep red berry succulence in the middle. Supple and sleek but wide and lengthy, with silky tannins. Long finish.

The Wine Cellar Insider - Avril 2023 - 93-95 pts

Silky, elegant, pure, fresh, and medium-bodied, the sweet, dark, red, and black fruits are vibrant, polished, refined, long, and pure in the nose, and on the palate. Drink from 2025-2040.

Jancis Robinson.com - Avril 2023 - 16.5+

Black core with purple rim. Really fragrant and open, seems to show the 20% stems as much in the aroma as on the palate. Lovely freshness and refinement, especially in the finest of tannins. Elegant already. Cool and fresh but with more to come.

Adria Van Velsen (vvWine) - Avril 2023 - 90-92 pts

Sehr rein, top Frucht, viele Brombeeren, süße Frucht, sehr feines Tannin, erfreulich lang im Abgang. Hohe Qualität! Wird früh Spass machen. (Verkostet "En Primeur"

Wine Swinging - Chateau de Pressac Grand Cru Classe Saint Emillion 2018

"It is too early to drink Chateau de Pressac Grand Cru Classe 2018, yet, we decided to take some notes to compare them later. Chateau de Pressac was founded in the Middle Ages. Historians cited it in 1453 in connection with Hundreds Year War. Jean Francois and Dominique Quenin became the new owners of the Chateau in 1997 and did the major development work on the vineyards. In 2012 the Chateau received the Grand Cru Classe status recognizing the excellence of the terroir, the vineyards, the wines, and the estate management (...)"

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FrenchWineLove – Terre de vins - Décembre 2022

"Château de Pressac : The most beautiful panoramic view over the village of Saint-Emilion ! Perched on the plateau of Saint-Émilion, the Château de Pressac has been overlooking the valley for more than 6 centuries. Mentioned in the history of France, its name was given to a grape variety. Here, the vine and time are inseparably linked. Pleasant meeting and tasting with Mr. Jean-François Quenin, the owner (with his wife Dominique)."

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Tasted 4 You - Déc 2022

Grands Crus Classés Saint-Emilion/slot -

Grands Crus Classés Saint-Emilion/slot

December 11, 2022 – Rene
Chateau de Pressac - Château de Pressac ligt op het kalksteenplateau van Saint-Emilion en kijkt uit over de vallei van de Dordogne. Hier bevordert de opmerkelijke geologie in combinatie met een microklimaat de ontwikkeling van de wijnstok. De knowhow van de teams, ontwikkeld gedurende vele jaren en voortdurend in ontwikkeling, stelt hen in staat de wijnstokken zo goed mogelijk te begeleiden en te helpen bij de kenmerken van deze uiterst originele plek(...)

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Winedoctor - Château de Pressac 2018 - Dec 2022

"Château de Pressac (St Emilion) 2018: The blend in this vintage is dominated by Merlot, at 70%, with 15% Cabernet Franc, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Malbec (or Pressac as it might be known locally) and 1% Malbec. An intriguing nose, dark and smoky, with black bean, liquorice and toast, laid over seams of black cherry and chalk. Aromatically this seeks set to impress. There follows a very complete and harmonious style on the palate, supple, with a nicely polished and sinewy substance, with a fine grip of tannins and fresh acidity. There is plenty of energy here, and a dark grip, easing it into the finish. Brooding, but undeniably seductive as well. This will develop very well. I raised a question over the last bottle I tasted, back in September 2021; looking at the strong performance here I was right to do so. The alcohol on the label is 14.5%. 94/100"

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Vins & Gastronomie Magazine – Hiver 2022

CHATEAU DE PRESSAC 2018 : « Robe d’un rouge pourpre profond, brillante, intense aux reflets violine. Le nez est expressif sur les petits fruits rouges avec une pointe de vanille et une belle persistance aromatique. La bouche est riche et épicée, sur les fruits noirs avec une dominante réglissée. Bel équilibre. Peut encore attendre 8 ans de plus. Le vin est suffisamment ouvert et expressif pour tenir à l’intensité de ce plat, notamment quant aux aromates de la pâte de loin où les épices et le fond réglissé du vin sont à l’aise. La cuisson du pigeon permet au vin de dérouler sa texture riche, les autres éléments du plat offrent du moelleux pour rimer avec son cœur juteux aux fruits noirs. Sa jeunesse lui apporte la structure nécessaire pour aborder l’architecture du plat. J.S