Château Margaux, 2025
Château Margaux, 2025
- 75cl
- 13.9%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
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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."
"A heavenly, magical wine that has perfection written all over it, the 2025 Château Margaux is based on 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot, raised entirely in new barrels. Similar in its gorgeous aromatics to the Pavillon Rouge, it shows cassis, blue fruits, and spice, but with a touch more freshness and floral character. It's absolutely seamless on the palate, with full body, a deep, layered, pure, graceful mouthfeel, velvety, polished tannins, flawless balance, and sensational length. Hitting 13.8% alcohol with a pH of 3.72, they took a chance harvesting very late in September, finishing on the 29th, and it unquestionably paid off. While many of the wines of the vintage are beautiful in their richness and elegance, this hits another level of opulence and depth. It reminds me of the 2009 on the palate and is a legendary Margaux in the making."
The 82-hectare vineyard sits on the finest gravel beds in the Margaux appellation, with deep Günzian gravel over limestone and clay subsoils providing excellent drainage. This unique terroir, combined with the moderating influence of the nearby Gironde estuary, creates ideal conditions for Cabernet Sauvignon to achieve perfect ripeness while retaining freshness. The gravelly soils warm quickly during the day and drain efficiently, stressing the vines just enough to concentrate flavours whilst the limestone subsoil provides the mineral backbone that defines Margaux's signature elegance.
Margaux is the largest and most diverse of the Médoc's four great communes, encompassing not just the village of Margaux but also Cantenac, Labarde, Arsac, and Soussans. The appellation is renowned for producing the most elegant and perfumed wines of the Left Bank, with its deep gravel soils favouring Cabernet Sauvignon whilst allowing for a higher proportion of Merlot than neighbouring Pauillac or Saint-Estèphe. Margaux wines are characterised by their finesse, complex aromatics, and silky tannins, offering a more graceful interpretation of Bordeaux than the power-driven styles found elsewhere in the Médoc.
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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