Château Lagrange, 2025 - Magnum
Château Lagrange, 2025 - Magnum
- 150cl
- 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."
The vineyards sit on the highest plateau of Saint-Julien, with deep gravel beds over clay and limestone subsoil. This elevation provides excellent drainage while the clay beneath retains enough moisture for the vines during dry spells. The Günzian gravel is particularly well-suited to Cabernet Sauvignon, giving the wines their characteristic mineral backbone and age-worthy structure. The terroir here shares similarities with neighbouring Pauillac but with slightly more clay, resulting in wines with Saint-Julien's signature elegance.
Saint-Julien is the smallest of the Médoc's four great communes, covering just 910 hectares, yet it punches well above its weight. The appellation is known for producing wines that balance power with finesse - less austere than Pauillac, more structured than Margaux. Eleven of its châteaux hold classified growth status, reflecting the consistently high quality of the gravelly soils. Saint-Julien wines typically show excellent aging potential while remaining more approachable in youth than their Pauillac neighbours.
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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