Château Lagrange, 2025
Château Lagrange, 2025
- 75cl
- 13.5%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
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Château Lagrange sits in Saint-Julien's sweet spot, producing wines that bridge the power of Pauillac with the elegance of Margaux. This third growth has been on stellar form since Japanese ownership brought investment and precision to its 118 hectares of prime Left Bank terroir.
What the critics say:
"The 2025 Lagrange shows excellent potential, offering up notes of cassis, dark berries and violets, framed by a subtle touch of new oak. Medium- to full-bodied, deep and dense, with a concentrated core of fruit, sweet tannins and a long, penetrating finish, it's a blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, checking in at 13.6% alcohol. Representing half the estate's production, its mid-palate depth and amplitude reflect the decision to harvest the estate's Cabernet Sauvignon late, between September 21 and October 10."
"Enjoyably sleek, another great vintage of Lagrange, delivers dark chocolate, coffee bean, precise, fine but plentiful tannins, edges of clear squid ink on the finish, good stuff. Yield 32 hl/ha. 50% new oak."
"Deep dark ruby garnet, opaque core, violet reflections, delicate edge brightening. Delicate nougat, black cherries, herbal spice with tobacco undertones, blackberry confit. Powerful, complex, dark berry fruit, ripe, firm tannins, mineral-salty finish, shows length and development potential."
Lagrange's 118 hectares spread across Saint-Julien's highest plateau, where deep Günzian gravel sits over clay and limestone. The elevation provides excellent drainage whilst the clay subsoil offers water retention during dry spells. This combination of warm, free-draining gravel and moisture-retentive clay creates the perfect environment for Cabernet Sauvignon to ripen fully whilst maintaining freshness and structure.
Saint-Julien represents Bordeaux's most consistent commune, producing wines that marry power with elegance. Stricter than its neighbours about grape varieties and yields, the appellation covers just 910 hectares between Pauillac and Margaux. The wines typically show more restraint than Pauillac's muscle and more structure than Margaux's perfume, creating a distinctive middle ground that ages magnificently over 20-30 years.
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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