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2022 Famille Isabel Ferrando Châteauneuf-du-Pape

2022 Famille Isabel Ferrando Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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Jeb Dunnuck

Reviewed October 2024
Reminding me of the 2020, the 2022 Châteauneuf Du Pape is based on 60% Grenache, 16% each Mourvèdre and Cinsault, and the rest Syrah. Its medium ruby hue is followed by a gorgeous perfume of black raspberries, white pepper, Provençal garrigue, and crushed stone-like minerality. With medium to full-bodied richness, a seamless, layered mouthfeel, and ripe, polished, yet building tannins, it's an absolute gem in the vintage that will benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and cruise over the following decade or more. 96+

Professional Reviews

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John Gilman

Review Date: 09/2024
The 2022 Châteauneuf du Pape from Isabel Ferrando hails mostly from her old vines in the lieu à dit of les Serres, which were the first vines she bought when she started her domaine in 2003. She has always farmed her vines organically, but was certified biodynamic beginning in the 2022 vintage. The bottling is made from a blend of seventy-five percent grenache, twelve percent cinsault, eleven percent mourvèdre and two percent syrah. The wine is raised mostly in older demi-muids and the wine comes in at 14.5 percent octane in the 2022 vintage. The wine’s aromatic constellation is deep and complex, wafting from the glass in a nicely black fruity blend of black raspberries, fruitcake, hung game, pepper, a beautifully complex foundation of soil, hickory smoke and a topnote of garrigue. On the palate the wine is deep, ripe and full-bodied, with great depth of fruit at the core, fine soil undertow, firm, chewy and well-integrated tannins and impressive balance and grip on the long, focused and complex finish. There is just a bit of backend warmth here, but it is minimal and this wine is going to be superb once it has had sufficient cellaring time.

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Wine Advocate

Review Date: 09/2024
Less exuberant than the F601, the 2022 Chateauneuf du Pape from Famille Isabel Ferrando is a blend of 60% Grenache Noir, 16% Mourvèdre, 16% Cinsault and 8% Syrah. It exhales a complex, shy bouquet of dark berries, spices, licorice, violet and dark cherries. Medium-bodied, fleshy and round with a textured mid-palate, it's enrobing and suave with structured tannins that segue into a long, penetrating and racy finish with lots of vertical energy. It matured for 18 months in a combination of foudres (34%), concrete tank (33%) and terracotta jars (33%). (YC)

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Vinous

Review Date: 06/2024
The inviting 2022 Châteauneuf-du-Pape is at eye level with the gorgeous 2020. Showcasing ripe forest strawberry, black cherry, licorice, crushed violet and licorice, the 2022 is simply alluring. Ripe and polished tannins provide good structure and lay a solid foundation for extended bottle-aging. This year’s blend is 65% Grenache, 15% Cinsault, 12% Mourvèdre and 8% Syrah. Tasted twice with consistent notes. (NG)

Staff Reviews

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Keith Mabry

K&L Buyer
Review Date: 05/2026
Isabel Ferrando is one of the true cult icons of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Long regarded as an outsider in the region—coming from a background far removed from the wine industry—she proved how transformative that perspective could be. After taking over the historic St-Préfert estate, situated on some of the sunniest and warmest soils of the appellation, she began crafting wines of remarkable finesse and lift, a striking contrast to the bold, powerful style traditionally associated with the region. Her boundary-pushing approach, including special cuvées like 100% Cinsault or 100% Clairette, challenged long-held norms and has since inspired many others to follow in her footsteps. The new 2022 Ferrando is superb, brimming with blackberry fruit, herbs de Provence, and subtle peppery spice. Its seamless structure and silken texture are unmistakably Ferrando—elegant, composed, and deeply expressive. While it has the architecture to age beautifully in the cellar, it already offers impressive complexity and charm for those eager to enjoy it now.

Notes

Isabel Ferrando arrived in Châteauneuf-du-Pape as an outsider, leaving a career in finance to purchase Domaine St-Préfert in 2002. From her debut 2003 vintage, she began transforming the estate’s winemaking to meet her exacting vision - pursuing elegance and precision from the hot, stony Les Serres lieu-dit. Ferrando championed organic and biodynamic farming, whole-cluster fermentation, and aging in a mix of concrete, amphora, and neutral oak - techniques that soon influenced a new generation of Rhône producers. Her meticulous approach and willingness to experiment helped establish her as one of the region’s leading modern voices, producing some of its most coveted cult wines. In 2020, she rebranded the estate as Famille Isabel Ferrando, marking a new chapter as her daughter Guillemette joined the production team. They began to consolidate the mulitple cuvees and they returned to a single, blended cuvée reflecting the domaine’s full terroir. The estate achieved biodynamic certification in 2022, the same year that vintage earned #10 on Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of 2025, confirming Ferrando’s continued ascent. From top to bottom, her wines remain essential benchmarks for Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s evolving identity.

Details

OriginChateauneuf du Pape, Rhone, France
Type/VarietalRhone Blends
SKU2004220