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The Grand Vin represented just 37% of production in 2025 and is most definitely worth seeking out. Deep, dark black fruits, cassis, blueberry with a lift of fresh plum and cedar. Graceful and silky in the palate, the tannins are fine and lacelike, but still contribute to the wine’s depth, structure and intensity. It flows beautifully, with flavours of violet, sesame and sweet fresh blackcurrant. Tremendous purity and fine linear direction are perfectly counterbalanced by a delicious velvety richness on the finish.
The 2025 Château Margaux was picked at 22 hl/ha between 10 and 29 September. This year it represents 37% of the total crop, a little down on recent vintages, and was matured in 100% new oak as usual. The first thing that you notice on this Château Margaux is the purity of fruit, a signature of the First Growth but taken to its maximum in this vintage. Perfumed blueberry, crushed violet and iris flower, a touch of iodine and a distant trace of the estuary. Wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with velvety tannins, fine delineation and poise. There is backbone to this Margaux but it is disguised under the layers of pure blackberry and blueberry fruit, dovetailing into a lightly spiced but very persistent finish. It fans out wonderfully, completing a very alluring wine in the making. This vintage contains 13.8% alcohol. Drink 2035-2065
A blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2025 Château Margaux is a deep, authoritative wine that represents some 37% of the estate's production this year. Unwinding in the glass with notes of dark berries, violets, lilac and pencil shavings, framed by a deft touch of new oak, it's medium- to full-bodied, dense and layered, with a concentrated core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins and lively acids. This will certainly require some patience, but it is a prodigious Château Margaux in the making. It checks in at 13.8% alcohol and a pH of 3.72.
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. Drink 2035-2075.
70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot, 4% Cabernet Franc. 28% of the production. Cask sample. Aromatically fragrant and fresh. Quite a powerful tannic frame but the tannins cushioned by the succulent fruit. Plenty of drive on the finish. Fine despite the alcohol. Drink 2032-2050
The Grand Vin represented just 37% of production in 2025 and is most definitely worth seeking out. Deep, dark black fruits, cassis, blueberry with a lift of fresh plum and cedar. Graceful and silky in the palate, the tannins are fine and lacelike, but still contribute to the wine’s depth, structure and intensity. It flows beautifully, with flavours of violet, sesame and sweet fresh blackcurrant. Tremendous purity and fine linear direction are perfectly counterbalanced by a delicious velvety richness on the finish.
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.
Plump, silky and seductive are the words often used to describe wines from Margaux. Because of their style, they tend to be user friendly and more approachable when young. This is in part due to its terroir which is comprised of the thinnest soil as well as the highest proportion of chunky gravel in all of the Médoc. It drains well but also is it more susceptible to vintage variation. Margaux wines tend to have the highest proportions of Merlot within the core of the Médoc further adding to their ample roundness and openness. Margaux is home to the largest number of classified growths including its namesake first growth, Château Margaux, as well as third growths, Palmer and d'Issan.
