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Vintage 2022 • Bordeaux • Burgundy • Rhône Valley • Napa Valley • Piedmont • Champagne
2022 Vintage — A modern, sun-filled and concentrated year
Buying a wine from the 2022 vintage means choosing a recent year shaped by heat, drought and high grape maturity. In the finest regions, however, this intensity is balanced by remarkable freshness, carried by great terroirs and by the precision of the best producers.
The clearest strength of the vintage lies in Bordeaux, where 2022 already stands out as a major year. Burgundy offers harmonious and seductive wines, the Rhône Valley produced many successful sun-filled reds, while Napa Valley deserves attention for its great Cabernet Sauvignon. Piedmont and Champagne require a more selective approach, assessed producer by producer and cuvée by cuvée.
For the safest purchases, favour a great Bordeaux 2022, a red Burgundy from a benchmark domaine, a Northern Rhône Syrah or a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The vintage offers many impressive wines for cellaring, but producer precision remains decisive in the warmest or most heterogeneous regions.
Best choices for cellaring: great Bordeaux, Hermitage, Côte-Rôtie, top red Burgundy, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
Best choices for richness: Bordeaux 2022, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, great reds from Napa Valley.
Best choices for charm: red Burgundy 2022, carefully selected Barolo and Barbaresco, precise grower Champagne.
Buy with discernment: Piedmont and Champagne, where the producer and the cuvée matter particularly.
What is the style of 2022 wines?
2022 is a sun-filled, concentrated and generous vintage. The best wines show dense fruit, ripe tannins, deep substance and a sense of balance that can be surprising given the climatic conditions of the year. In the finest examples, maturity does not mean heaviness, but expressive depth and genuine ageing potential.
Bordeaux 2022: the great pillar of the vintage
In Bordeaux, 2022 ranks among the great recent vintages. Despite the heat and drought, the best terroirs produced wines of depth, structure and striking freshness. Successes are numerous on both banks, from Pauillac to Margaux, from Saint-Julien to Pomerol and Saint-Émilion.
Favour: Pauillac, Saint-Julien, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe, Pessac-Léognan, Pomerol, Saint-Émilion.
Best for: collectors, long-term cellaring and lovers of powerful yet balanced Bordeaux.
Buying priority: very high for great châteaux and benchmark cuvées.
Burgundy 2022: fruit, harmony and great success
In Burgundy, 2022 is a very successful vintage, both for reds and whites. The red wines are often luminous, fruit-driven and seductive, while retaining a fine definition of terroir. The best whites combine maturity, purity and balance, with remarkable quality from the leading producers.
Favour: Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune, Chablis, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet.
Best for: lovers of expressive, elegant and already seductive wines, with fine cellaring potential from the best domaines.
Buying priority: very high for great producers and top terroirs.
Rhône Valley 2022: a sun-filled yet well-held vintage
In the Rhône Valley, 2022 produced ripe, generous and expressive wines. The Northern Rhône stands out for structured, deep Syrahs with genuine ageing potential, while the Southern Rhône offers rich, spicy and warm-hearted bottles when balance has been preserved.
Favour: Hermitage, Côte-Rôtie, Cornas, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas.
Best for: lovers of sun-filled, structured and generous wines.
Buying priority: high to very high depending on terroir and producer.
Napa Valley 2022: ambitious successes from the best estates
In Napa Valley, 2022 was a contrasted year, notably marked by intense late-summer heat. The best producers nevertheless crafted impressive Cabernet Sauvignon, rich, structured and deep, with real ageing potential when balance was preserved.
Favour: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, great Bordeaux-style blends.
Best for: lovers of powerful Californian reds and prestige cuvées.
Buying priority: high among benchmark estates.
Piedmont 2022: heat, accessibility and selection
In Piedmont, 2022 was a hot and dry vintage, more demanding than the great classical years. The best Barolo and Barbaresco may offer generous fruit and earlier accessibility, but quality is more heterogeneous: the choice of producer is essential.
Favour: great producers, balanced cuvées, wines preserving freshness and precision.
Best for: lovers of Nebbiolo with a more immediately charming profile.
Buying priority: selective rather than automatic.
Champagne 2022: a promising vintage to follow cuvée by cuvée
In Champagne, 2022 appears to be a ripe, healthy and promising vintage. The style seems more sun-filled and generous than in the most tense years, but it remains preferable to wait for the definitive cuvées and select wines house by house.
Favour: great houses, precise growers, Blancs de Blancs and Blancs de Noirs depending on producer.
Best for: lovers of generous Champagne and buyers attentive to the finest cuvées.
Buying priority: promising but still selective.
Buying a wine from 2022
Buying a wine from 2022 can be an excellent choice for a contemporary cellar, provided the regions are carefully prioritised and the most precise producers are favoured. The strongest purchases today are great Bordeaux, the best Burgundies, top Northern Rhône Syrah and Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
2022: a sun-filled, powerful and highly sought-after vintage
The 2022 vintage is a great modern year, rich and concentrated, with Bordeaux as its clearest summit. Burgundy, the Rhône Valley and the best Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon complete the main buying priorities, while Piedmont and Champagne deserve a more selective approach. For lovers of deep, expressive wines built to evolve, discover our selection of 2022 wines.
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