Château de Fieuzal Rouge, 2025
Château de Fieuzal Rouge, 2025
- 75cl
- 14%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
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Château de Fieuzal sits in Pessac-Léognan, where the gravelly soils of the Left Bank meet a more elegant, mineral-driven style than their Médoc cousins. The blend leans on Cabernet Sauvignon for backbone, with Merlot adding flesh and a touch of Petit Verdot for spice.
What the critics say:
The 49-hectare vineyard sits on a gravel plateau typical of Pessac-Léognan, with deep Günzian gravel over clay-limestone subsoil. This drainage provides excellent conditions for Cabernet Sauvignon to ripen fully whilst retaining freshness. The maritime influence from the nearby Atlantic moderates temperatures, extending the growing season and preserving acidity even in warmer years.
Pessac-Léognan represents the most northerly part of the Graves, elevated to its own appellation in 1987. Unlike the power-focused communes of the Médoc, Pessac-Léognan wines show more finesse and mineral precision, thanks to particularly well-draining gravelly soils. The appellation produces both red and white wines, with reds requiring a minimum 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot combined.
The 2025 Bordeaux vintage emerged from one of the most demanding growing seasons in recent memory — the earliest budbreak since 1989, June temperatures second only to 2003 since records began, and an unusually early harvest beginning in August for the whites. Conditions that should have produced heavy, overripe wines. They didn't. Decanter's Georgie Hindle, who tasted close to 200 wines ahead of the formal campaign, describes "exceptional concentration, aromatic purity and a freshness that contradicts the record-breaking heat.
The early critical consensus places 2025 stylistically between the precision of 2020 and the structure of 2016, with the brightness of 2023 — a combination that suggests a very serious vintage indeed. Yields are dramatically low, the smallest crop since 1991, with production across the Gironde running around 15% below the five-year average. The quality is here. There simply isn't very much of it.
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