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2025 L'If St Emilion - 6x75cl
06C5IFIF6PK _ 2025 - L'If St Emilion - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château l'If
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot
  • Drinking 2030 - 2045
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur

2025 - L'If St Emilion - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château l'If
  • Region St Emilion
  • Grape Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot
  • Drinking 2030 - 2045
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £405.00 In Bond
Please note: These wines are lying abroad until shipping and can only be purchased In Bond. If you are an existing Private Reserves customer, the wine will be automatically transferred on arrival. Otherwise, you will be contacted on arrival in the UK to arrange delivery, In Bond storage in Private Reserves or another bonded warehouse.
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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2026, Score: 92-94

    Wonderfully intense and exotic nose. Tasty, tactile tannins – very moreish, mouthcoating and enticing. Glossy plums, a touch of blackcurrant, with incense and spice. The limestone minerality shines through, with a sapid salty core at the centre of the palate. Fine structure and precision, with a fresh and tensile finish.

  • Neal Martin, May 2026, Score: 92-94

    The 2025 L'If was picked from September 11 to 19 and matured in 50% new French oak and 50% one-year-old barrels. This vintage contains a little more Cabernet Franc (25%). A mélange of red and blueberry fruit on the nose, hints of iris flower and just a hint of blood orange. Fine definition, quite understated in style. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy tannins on the entry, citrus-fresh and the limestone element shapes the profile on the finish. Bright acids, very tensile. It will be fascinating to revisit this L'If after bottling. Drink 2030-2050

  • Wine Advocate, April 2026, Score: 89-91

    Aromas of cherries, rose petals and a touch of new oak introduce the 2025 L'If, a medium- to full-bodied, taut and rather compact wine built around a prominent spine of acidity (the pH is 3.28) that lends it a somewhat intellectual profile.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Score: 97-99

    The 2025 L'If is a total stunner. It's like no other vintage I have tasted thus far, perhaps because of the high percentage (25%) of Cabernet Franc. Chalk, mint, white pepper, blood orange and jasmine are some of the many notes that gradually open in the glass. A saline edge shapes the brisk mid-palate and brilliant, chiseled finish. Magnificent. The best L'If to date. Tasted two times. Drink 2035-2065.

  • Jancis Robinson, May 2026, Score: 16.5/20

    75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc. 38 hl/ha. Part of the Jacques Thienpont (Le Pin) stable). Cask sample. Deep purple colour. Ripe nose. Lovely texture and freshness. Structured but nothing extreme. Elegant and harmonious. Drink 2030-2045

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2026, Score: 92-94

    Wonderfully intense and exotic nose. Tasty, tactile tannins – very moreish, mouthcoating and enticing. Glossy plums, a touch of blackcurrant, with incense and spice. The limestone minerality shines through, with a sapid salty core at the centre of the palate. Fine structure and precision, with a fresh and tensile finish.

  • Jane Anson, April 2026, Score: 94

    Explodes out of the glass, a wine where you can easily read the terroir, intense with oyster shell salinity, chalky tannins, lovely grip, slow and steady unrolling, olive pit, baking spices, fragrant iris and peony character. Clings on, and this is truly an expertly-handled expression of the soils, 3.3ph. 50% new oak. 3.28 pH. Harvest September 11 to 19, now in full production, 8ha, youngest vines from 2019.

Producer

Château l'If

Region

St Emilion

South of Pomerol lies the medieval, perched village of St Emilion. Surrounding St Emilion are vines that produce round, rich and often hedonistic wines. Despite a myriad of soil types, two main ones dominate - the gravelly, limestone slopes that delve down to the valley from the plateau and the valley itself which is comprised of limestone, gravel, clay and sand. Despite St Emilion's popularity today, it was not until the 1980s to early 1990s that attention was brought to this region. Robert Parker, the famous wine critic, began reviewing their Merlot-dominated wines and giving them hefty scores. The rest is history as they say. Similar to the Médoc, there is a classification system in place which dates from 1955 and outlines several levels of quality. These include its regional appellation of St Emilion, St Emilion Grand Cru, St Emilion Grand Cru Classé and St Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, which is further divided into "A" (Ausone and Cheval Blanc) and "B" (including Angélus, Canon, Figeac and a handful of others). To ensure better accuracy, the classification is redone every 10 years enabling certain châteaux to be upgraded or downgraded depending on on the quality of their more recent vintages.

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