After 10 days in Bordeaux and tasting more than 400 wines, we can inform you that 2025 is a great vintage:
Climate:
· A mild winter and reasonably humid.
· From April onwards, a warm and dry spring, which ensured rapid and homogeneous flowering, a primary condition for a great vintage!
· An exceptionally warm and dry summer, with very high temperatures between early and mid-August and practically no rain, which ensured homogeneous ripening of the berries.
· Small, "soothing" rain showers at the end of August (still varying in quantity by region), which played a "regulating" role and caused a decrease in alcohol content without, however, inflating the berries, thus maintaining concentration.
· No diseases in the vineyard, thanks to the very dry climate throughout the entire cycle. • A historically early harvest and very small harvest, due to the small berries with little juice.
The wines:
Gentle extraction was very important to maintain balance in the wines (to avoid extracting too many tannins from the small berries and thick skins). A gentle infusion of the juice with the skins at low temperatures was ideal!
The red wines are very flavorful, featuring "bursting" fruit, energetic, fine-tuned, deep yet fresh and low in alcohol, with a very "classic" Bordeaux style (in the good sense of the word). A harmony between power and grace, a great vintage of balance and depth, born in the sun, with an "Atlantic" elegance and freshness, and moderate alcohol content. Wines that we are all looking for right now!
I am also a fan of the dry white wines; they have a beautiful richness, more white fruits (peaches, mango, pear) than grapefruit, yet at the same time good freshness, very balanced and therefore very interesting.
The sweet white wines have shown great intensity and pure botrytis, which developed very rapidly. A great vintage here too!
The only downside of 2025: the volumes! Yields of 28 hl/ha in Saint Julien are far below normal yields… Some properties have 40% less wine.
It is therefore important to subscribe quickly to the “sought-after wines,” and prices will remain moderate, given the global crisis and the fact that the chateaus really want to sell “en primeur.” As a true connoisseur, you will certainly benefit from purchasing a few cases!
From now until the end of June, new wines will be released weekly with their prices; we will update our website daily with the wines released that day. Follow the campaign closely via our website and set your preferences, as quantities are sometimes limited!
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