Château du Tertre, 2025 - Magnum
Château du Tertre, 2025 - Magnum
- 150cl
- 13.5%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc
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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."
Château du Tertre sits on Margaux's highest plateau at 32 metres above sea level, giving it both excellent drainage and cooling breezes. The 52 hectares of vineyards are planted on classic Günzian gravel over limestone subsoil, with patches of clay that add depth and structure. This elevated position provides natural frost protection while the gravel ensures perfect drainage, creating wines that combine Margaux's trademark elegance with surprising concentration and longevity.
Margaux is Bordeaux's most ethereal appellation, famous for producing wines of extraordinary perfume and finesse rather than power. The commune's deep gravel soils and maritime influence create wines that are more delicate than Pauillac or Saint-Estèphe, yet capable of remarkable longevity. With 21 classed growths including Château Margaux itself, this is the Left Bank's most aristocratic address, where Cabernet Sauvignon reaches its most refined expression.
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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