2022 Château Capbern En Primeur
Château Capbern has been one of our most popular en primeur offers over several vintages and the latest 2022 release is superb, scoring 94-96 points from Jeb Dunnuck.
This is another winning formula this year: An affordable estate that shares a winemaking team with its stable-mate, St-Estèphe super-star Calon-Ségur, in a great vintage for this commune.
Capbern is superb value at just £230 per dozen, or just over £19 per bottle in bond.
Bordeaux En Primeur, Landing in spring 2025.
To order, e-mail us at sales@richardkihl.ltd.uk
Producer Profile
Château Capbern, Saint-Estèphe Cru Bourgeois
Château Capbern (known as Capbern-Gasqueton until 2014) is a Cru Bourgeois in Saint-Estèphe. A long-standing favourite (we have been drinking and enjoying the 2011 of late), Capbern is also an estate well on its way to ascending into a different league of winemaking, first under Laurent Dufau and, since 2020, under Vincent Millet.
Dufau and Millet are credited with the rapid progress made at Calon-Ségur, under the same ownership as Capbern since 2012. Calon is challenging Montrose and Cos d'Estournel as the leading wines of Saint-Estèphe and each new vintage of Capbern shows some of this ambition too. The 33 hectares of vines are hand-harvested and the wine is a blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 47% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, aged for 18 months in 60% new oak barrels.
