Château Margaux, 2025
Château Margaux, 2025
- 75cl
- 13.5%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc
- Organic
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This is the estate that puts the elegance into Margaux, where power meets poise in ways that make other first growths seem a touch heavy-handed. It's at the peak of its modern form under the Mentzelopoulos family's stewardship.
What the critics say:
"Deep dark ruby garnet, violet reflections, delicate rim brightening. Ripe heart cherries with a delicate floral underlay, fine cassis, rose petals, multi-faceted bouquet, a hint of precious wood, multi-layered aromas. Textured, elegant, fine extract sweetness, fine fruit, silky, supporting tannins, incredibly complex, mineral, freshly structured, lingers for minutes, sure aging potential for many decades. The ideal image of a classic Margaux for the new era."
"More dense and yet more soft than the Pavillon Rouge, fully anchored in place and yet rising through the palate, with rose petals, pomegranate, cassis and damson fruits, so juicy and full of character, slate and crushed rocks, peony and iris, with volume that is expansive and striking. These guys held on to harvest after the rains and have been rewarded for it - can't have been easy as everyone was picking around them, but this was a great decision that shows just what was capable in this vintage. 22hl/ha yield across the vineyard, harvest September 8 for young Merlot, then Cabernet Sauvignon began September 19 and finished September 29. 14% press wine, so a little less than usual because of the natural concentration. 22hl/ha yield across the vineyard, IPT81,3.76ph. 37% 1st wine. I dont give 100 points En Primeur, but if I did, this would get it. It's a slam dunk."
"The 2025 Château Margaux is shaping up to be one of the wines of this young vintage. Dark and layered, almost mysterious in bearing, the 2025 is going to have a lot to say over the coming decades as it grows up. Today, its superb persistence and exceptional balance are the harbingers. Here, too, there's a ton of tannin, but also more than enough fruit and overall density to keep things in balance."
"The texture of this wine is exceptional, with black currant, dark plum, chocolate and orange blossom aromas. Full-bodied with round and creamy tannins that fill the mouth and give a caressing texture. Very long and seductive. Gentle at the end. It's lush, velvety and luxurious. 89% cabernet sauvignon, 6% merlot, 4% cabernet franc and 1% petit verdot."
The Château Margaux vineyard sits on a unique hillock of deep Günz gravel over limestone and clay, providing exceptional drainage that forces the vines to dig deep for water and nutrients. This stress concentrates flavours while the gravel stores heat during the day and releases it at night, ensuring optimal ripening even in challenging years. The terroir is particularly suited to Cabernet Sauvignon, which thrives in the well-drained soils, while pockets of clay provide the perfect home for Merlot. This combination of soil types allows for the complex blending that gives Château Margaux its signature elegance and longevity.
Margaux is the most southerly and largest of the great Médoc communes, known for producing the most elegant and perfumed wines of the Left Bank. The appellation's rules permit Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec, and Carménère, with most estates favouring Cabernet Sauvignon as the backbone. Unlike neighbouring Pauillac's power or Saint-Julien's structure, Margaux wines are defined by their finesse and aromatic complexity. The commune's diverse soils, from deep gravels to patches of clay and sand, create a range of styles, but the best sites like Château Margaux itself showcase the appellation's ability to combine strength with remarkable grace.
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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