Château du Tertre, 2025
Château du Tertre, 2025
- 75cl
- 13.5%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot
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Drinking window: 2030 - 2045
Est. delivery in 2028
Château du Tertre occupies one of the highest points in Margaux, producing wines that marry the commune's famous elegance with surprising power - classic Margaux with backbone. The estate has built a reputation for consistency since the Albada Jelgersma family took ownership, with their gentle modernisation respecting the property's 5th Growth heritage.
What the critics say:
"The texture and depth are really impressive for this chateau and might be its best wine ever. It’s medium-bodied with integrated and refined tannins, a powdery and textured mouthfeel and an endless finish. Floating on the pure fruit. 65% cabernet sauvignon, 18% merlot, 11% cabernet franc and 6% petit verdot."
The vineyard sits on Margaux's highest ground at 26 metres above sea level, on deep Günzian gravel beds over clay subsoil. This elevation provides excellent drainage whilst the clay retains enough moisture for the vines during dry spells. The gravelly topsoil reflects heat back onto the grapes, encouraging optimal ripening, whilst the terroir's natural drainage prevents waterlogging and concentrates flavours.
Margaux is Bordeaux's most elegant appellation, where gravel soils and a maritime climate produce wines of exceptional finesse and perfume. The commune covers 1,413 hectares and includes 21 classified growths, with strict regulations requiring minimum alcohol levels and limiting yields. Margaux wines are typically more aromatic and graceful than their Pauillac or Saint-Estèphe neighbours, with Cabernet Sauvignon leading blends that emphasise finesse over power.
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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