The 2019 Château Ormes de Pez is a rich and complex wine with a blend of 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 50% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot. The wine showcases generous aromas of dark berries, roses, and pencil shavings, with a lively, seamless palate and a touch of graphite and wet stone. It’s dense yet refined, offering big tannins from the Cabernet Sauvignon and fruity notes from the Merlot. Critics have praised its balance and structure, with James Suckling awarding it 93 points, describing it as spicy with dark berries and a need for time to fully come together. This wine is expected to evolve beautifully, with peak drinking after 2024.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 93
Published: Feb 20, 2022

This shows lots of spice, such as cloves and nutmeg, together with dark berries and cherries and some plums. it'sstructured and relatively dense, with lovely length and beauty. Needs time to open and come together. 50% merlot, 40% cabernet sauvignon with cabernet franc and petit verdot. Lovely now. Try after 2024.

Decanter | D 92
Published: Feb 24, 2023

This wine especially reflects the solar aspects of 2019, more broad than linear in its rich and open-knit expression of jammy fruit. Some hints of southern France give this wine a warm and welcoming aspect, but I like the underlying tannic finesse with subtle expressions of graphite and wet stone.

The Wine Advocate | RP 90
Published: Apr 7, 2022
Drink: 2021-2041

The 2019 Ormes de Pez exhibits generous aromas of sweet berry fruit, rose petals and pencil shavings, followed by a medium to full-bodied, lively and seamless palate that's bright and integrated, with an elegantly fleshy core of fruit, fine tannins and a saline finish. Produced by the Cazes family of Chateau Lynch-Bages, this is invariably one of the most charming, friendly wines of Saint-Estephe. 

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 16.5+
Published: Feb 1, 2023
Drink: 2026-2040

Tasted blind. Deep, purplish crimson. Voluptuous fruit. Quite chocolatey even! And with a burnt note on the end. But some stony, sinewy character – and freshness – on the way there. A bit dry on the end. 

Ormesdepez.com

Château Ormes de Pez belongs to the Médoc landscape since the 18th century. Located West of Saint-Estèphe and bordering the hamlet of Pez, the estate owes its name to a magnificent grove of elm trees, which no longer exists today. Château Ormes de Pez is the second property – after Château Lynch-Bages – acquired by the Cazes family in 1939.

With distinctive harmonious spicy character, Château Ormes de Pez is true to its terroir. Wine lovers appreciate its opulence, elegance and well-rounded structure. Its powerful, rich and excellent tannic backbone allows graceful ageing.

2019 Blending: 
40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 50% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot

The wine is fresh, refined and velvety with intense purplish garnet colour and a characteristic nose marked by aromas of fresh black berries (blackberries, blackcurrants). Ormes de Pez 2019 offers big well-rounded tannins, typical of Cabernet Sauvignon, but also fruity aromas brought by the Merlot, and a complexity introduced by toasted notes acquired from ageing in barrels. (April 2020).