Bordeaux EP 2025 - all wines released so far...

The 2025 L'If is full of intensity. Quite sculpted and sinewy in profile, there is a fine, detailed red fruit character layered with notes of blood orange and rosehip. A lot of vibrancy through the palate with a beautifully detailed finish of violets, iris and wild herbs.

Rich cassis fruit with cocoa and dark chocolate spice. This is a brilliantly balanced Batailley showing the flesh and mid-palate fruit of the warm summer while maintaining freshness and poise through the finish. Layers of violets, spice, creamy oak, and gravelly Pauillac minerality build on the palate to a long and cohesive finish. Great value this year.

Rich cassis fruit with cocoa and dark chocolate spice. This is a brilliantly balanced Batailley showing the flesh and mid-palate fruit of the warm summer while maintaining freshness and poise through the finish. Layers of violets, spice, creamy oak, and gravelly Pauillac minerality build on the palate to a long and cohesive finish. Great value this year.

Rich cassis fruit with cocoa and dark chocolate spice. This is a brilliantly balanced Batailley showing the flesh and mid-palate fruit of the warm summer while maintaining freshness and poise through the finish. Layers of violets, spice, creamy oak, and gravelly Pauillac minerality build on the palate to a long and cohesive finish. Great value this year.

Rich cassis fruit with cocoa and dark chocolate spice. This is a brilliantly balanced Batailley showing the flesh and mid-palate fruit of the warm summer while maintaining freshness and poise through the finish. Layers of violets, spice, creamy oak, and gravelly Pauillac minerality build on the palate to a long and cohesive finish. Great value this year.

Clocking in at just 12.5% alcohol, this is a contemporary classic. Showing excellent definition with so much intensity, notes of graphite and sandalwood spice gently waft from the glass. There is a fluid quality to the wine, that flows across the palate from start to finish with a levity and focus. Saline and pure with a fine, yet unrelenting web of tannins like cashmere over the dark berry fruit. A true modern classic, this is full of elegant, noble, silky Pauillac intensity that almost catches you off guard with its finesse.Sinewy, elegant power, this is irresistible.

Tight and coiled, this has lovely energy pulsing through the wine behind a veil of ripe dark berry fruit. Notes of plums and cherry fruit, liquorice accented with mineral notes of graphite and gravel. This is delicious showing both lots of flesh and charm yet with a restraint and serious focus to match.

Another triumph for the Bartons but yields are low this year. Dark berry fruit, savoury spice, dense and very fine tannins. This Langoa is quite powerful and assertive yet with a sinewy, supple feel. Grows in power in the palate with a dazzling and super elegant finish. Lots of detail and poise here.

This wine has even higher levels of tannins than the 2022 yet they are so seamlessly integrated. There is brilliant aromatic clarity on the nose with notes of juniper, wild herbs, dark cherry and gravel. There is flesh and the charm of ripe bramble fruit on the mid-palate but the wine then coils up with super tension through the finish. Fine and sinewy tannins from the fruit, but it is only on the finish you notice the true power here. Brilliant.

Classic Lynch Bages, the 2025 is brooding, inky, and dripping with violets, cassis, tobacco, pencil shavings. A wine of huge potential, this marries a muscular profile with finesse and definition. There is an athletic energy here with a pure Pauillac profile of gravelly intensity. A wine of excellent balance this will number among the best recent vintages from this estate.

This is all class. A rich, powerful wine with a cool mineral undertone. Iodine, violets, crushed rocks, a lot of graphite this is wine that seems etched with mineral and cassis. An exercise in controlled power, this is a bold and aristocratic wine, with regal confidence. Compelling tension on the finish.

A classic Poyferre with a rounded, caressing and creamy feel to the fruit. Wonderfully proportioned with no edges at all. Violets, layers of liquorice, and savoury spice accenting the bright purple fruit. A modern wine, full of charm and approachability yet intense and quite serious all the same.

A vibrant and energetic style with a dazzling purity of fruit. Violets, peony and a little cocoa-dusted cherry fruit lead to the finely crafted, sinewy finish.

This is quite fleshy and modern style of Phelan. Notes of spice, incense and cocoa lift with quite powerful, rich fruit behind. There is definition and class here.

The 2025 Pontet Canet offers quite explosive aromatics with notes of blue fruits, black tea, and lavender. Rounded almost creamy merlot character of plum and red cherry coat the mid-palate with a bright line of acidity as a counterbalance. Showing a sinewy and supple tannic architecture, this finishes with a subtle earthy note of iris root and liquorice.

A blend of 86% merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon, this is a classic Pomerol with rich, dark spiced fruits. There is flesh with with a well-defined and sculpted profile with refreshing lift of floral notes. Fragrant and quite finessed, there is tension and some drama here. A little drop of hedonism on the finish, there is something quite charming to this modern Evangile that has plenty of life to it.