🚨 A Top 3 Red Wine For Me This Year 🚨
08.28.2026
2022 Chateau Haut Troquart La Grâce Dieu Saint Emilion Grand Cru
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It's my 16th wedding anniversary today, so I'm breaking open a bottle of honestly what is one of the top 3 red wines I've had this year...and it kinda came out of nowhere.
We knew we loved it when we tried it for the first time at Wine Paris back in February, but when I re-tried it 3 weeks ago it was absolutely FIRING. I almost finished the entire bottle myself (this is a judgement free zone folks!)
So what can I tell you about this EPIC wine?
Every year at the largest wine trade show in France, we spend a good amount of time just wandering. What are we looking for? Iconic packaging. We’ve had good luck in seeking out wineries that spend a lot of time thinking about their packaging…as they often spend just as much, if not more time, thinking about the wine that goes inside. It doesn’t always hold up that way, but it does more often than not.
This year, we had one absolutely epic find…Chateau Le Grace Dieu…and the story about how the winery came to be is almost as epic as the wine itself.
The winery?
The estate sits inside the town limits of Saint-Émilion itself, the medieval UNESCO World Heritage village where the Romans planted vines two thousand years ago and a Benedictine hermit named Émilion carved out a cave in the eighth century and gave the place its name.
The vineyard runs east to west across the appellation's best ground.
On the east: the clay-limestone plateau of Les Menuts. Limestone is the whole ballgame in Saint-Émilion. It forces roots deep and holds water in reserve.
On the west: the gravel rises that run up against Château Cheval Blanc and Château Figeac.
The same gravel croupes as Cheval Blanc. Cheval Blanc is a $1,000 a bottle. Just keep that for reference 😂
The 2022 vintage?
Decanter called it superb: wines of remarkable resilience, deep fruit, firm tannin, and an unexpected sense of classicism. The Wine Cellar Insider says 2022 will be seen as legendary.
The story?
In 1870 (we’re going waaaaaay back), a woman named Henriette Ternois was working as a vineyard laborer at Château Figeac. Figeac, is one of the greatest estates in Saint-Émilion, today a Premier Grand Cru Classé A alongside Cheval Blanc, Pavie, and Ausone. Henriette was hired help. She picked other people's grapes on other people's land.
That year, she bought a parcel of her own. I don't know how a vineyard worker in 1870 France scraped together the money to buy land in Saint-Émilion (to be fair I don’t even know how much that would have cost). But she did it! She married a man named Jean Thibeau and the two of them kept buying, parcel by parcel, over the course of their lives.
The property then passed to their daughter, Lucienne. Then to their granddaughter, Lucette. Then to their great-granddaughter, Odile. The family calls it five generations of viticultrices, women winegrowers, in an industry where properties pass father to son as reliably as gravity, and where you could count the female proprietors of that era on one hand.
These women held the property through two world wars. Through the winter of 1956, when a catastrophic freeze killed the entire vineyard. They replanted and waited years for a crop. Through droughts, hailstorms, and the collapse of the Bordeaux market more than once.
Today it's Odile and her son Bastien, the sixth generation. One hundred and fifty-five years of the same family on the same ground. We got to meet Odile while tasting the wines, and we didn’t know this story and I feel like we missed a great opportunity to pepper her with questions!
This wine?!?!
Single vineyard, 5 acre parcel of Merlot. It's raised in 100% new French oak, and not from a single cooper. They select barrels from multiple tonnelleries each vintage, matching the oak's grain and toast level to the character of that specific year. That is a Grand Cru Classé practice being applied to a five-acre plot by a family of farmers.
The estate calls it une cuvée confidentielle. I love secret wines 😂
So there you have it. Inexpensive it is not...but it's Friday, and even if it is not your anniversary why don't you take the day to celebrate you, celebrate your family, celebrate your life...and drink an awesome bottle of wine with a nice meal.
I know what I'm drinking tonight!
TGIF!