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.

This year the wine has a full 50% of Cabernet Franc in the blend, higher than usual. It is a bright, focused and brilliant Angelus this year with captivating aromatics of violets, juniper and wild herbs. Tense, vibrant and coiled through the palate, there is a scultped and seamless feel to the tannins. There is an understated intensity that builds through the palate to a vivid and sophisticated finish.

One of the most impressive wines on the right bank this year, the Ausone 2025 is a blend of 65% Cabernet Franc, 30% merlot, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. A wine of real intensity there is a brooding nose of iris root, bay leaf, wild herbs and dark cherry. There is a sense of completeness here showing both charm and power. Wonderful concentration of bramble fruit, this keeps moving through the palate with a vibrant, chiselled focus. Verticality, structure, power - what more could you ask for?

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.

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.

This year’s Beau-Séjour Bécot has real beauty and elegance. It really fills the palate with an effortless energy. A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, the wine really shows its sense of place with notes of crushed rock, refreshingly vibrant cherry fruit with sinewy, sculpted tannins. Aromas of black tea, liquorice root, violets and subtle sandalwood spice lift towards the finish but everything is in its place here.

This is a brilliant Beychevlle that charts the right balance between flamboyant and focus. There is a fleshy and modern character with plenty of charm. A bright line of freshness and salinity underpins the rich cassis fruit, with hints of tobacco, iris, and cocoa on the finish.

A striking perfume here with notes of blue fruits, violets, and lavender. The tannins feel fine-grained, compact and polished. This Branaire has both flesh and density with a pure Cabernet character that comes forward. Sinewy a profile, this is a wine with excellent detail and definition.

A blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, and 1% Cabernet Franc and Carmenère. This is a standout wine from Brane this year. A wine of finesse and intensity it opens with sandalwood, incense, crushed rocks, and graphite. Dark cherry fruit floods the palate while the drive of Cabernet flashes through the palate. Confident, fluid, and very impressive this is an impeccable Brane that will develop into one of the most exciting releases of the campaign.

The earliest and fastest harvest at the estate, the 2025 Calon-Segur is a blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot. Notes of graphite, iodine, and bright cassis fruit fill the palate. There are accents of cedar and sandalwood, and floral notes of violets and peony. There is gloss and richness here but plenty of tension and freshness too. A compelling Calon this year.

Quite dazzling this year, there is a seamless elegance to Canon this year. Opening with subtle cedar spice, there is a feeling of limestone tension underpinning the wine. Showing both verticality and breadth on the palate, there is amplitude of ripe hedgerow fruit counterbalanced with supple, fine-grained tannins imbued with violets and inky liquorice. Beautiful and enticing, this has an intensity that really captures attention.

Beautiful aromatics to this Cantenac Brown with violets, cherry blossom, very fine wild cherry notes. Really fluid, seamless and charming in style it also has a serious side, with a more savoury and mineral edge. There is a tension and intensity here with a lovely lift and freshness to the finish.

With yields at just 15 hl/ha, this is one of the smallest harvests at the estate in decades but it most definitely numbers among one of the wines of the vintage. With 46 of the 47 plots used in the final blend there will be no Petit Cheval this year. A blend of 51% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, this Cheval Blanc has stunning focus and intensity. There is almost an intellectual quality about the wine, with its restraint, persistence, and detail. A bright lift and drive with a superbly, fine-grained feel to the tannins. Impeccably poised, this will have a very long-life.

Quite a serious wine this year, there is a restrained power at the core of the wine. Cooler, dark fruited in style, there is both tension and drama that floods the palate. Sinewy and tension, there is a fine-grained feel to the tannin with a tinge of iodine, graphite and iris root. There is a quiet power that expands on the finish, with notes of cedar and violet.

This is a fabulous modern Clinet, rich and almost exotic with notes of incense and cocoa. Dark cherry and plum fruit clothes the firm, supple tannin. This year new oak is cut down to 60% and there is a fine sense of balance here with brilliant aromatic definition.

The 2025 Cos D’Estournel is a true success this year. Pin-sharp aromatics this open with spiced notes of incense and wild herbs. There is plenty of flesh and substance here but also a brightness and focus. There is a wonderful sense of tension that builds here coating the mouth with bright bramble fruit, hints of iris root and violets. There is intensity here yet also so much charm and finesse that carries through. One of the real standouts from the estate in recent years.

There is a brooding intensity here with accents of cocoa which gives to a lively and fleshy palate of dark fruit. Super intensity with notes of violets, gravel, graphite, and a very mineral core here behind the fruit. Power and concentration with deep bramble fruit showing wonderful depth and energy. It is quite bold and rounded yet with a fine, driven focus.

An elegant and finessed style of Duhart offering notes of tobacco leaf, graphite, cocoa and espresso. There is brightness here with lots of cherry fruit with scultpted, fine, sinewy tannin. Stony with a Pauillac gravelly focus it is a wine of freshness and energy, with a caressing and flowing feel to the finish.

This year a blend of 38% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 32% Cabernet Sauvignon, this is a bold and detailed Figeac. Plenty of power and class there, with notes of violets and cassis that flesh out on the palate. There are similarities with the magnificent 2020 here, with a tense, fine-grained tannin structure that holds all the fruit in place. There is energy that pushes through the palate with a refreshing, vibrant finish full of savoury complexity.

A very elegant Giscours this year with wonderful aromatics offering notes of wild herbs, juniper, and ripe cassis fruit. There is a tension and energy running through the wine which feels quite coiled for now. This is very supple and tender with ripe tannin coated with generous fruit etched with a line of refreshness. The finish is long and full of violets, iris root and a little mineral accent.

Dark-fruited, this Gloria feels has an enticing, brooding quality. The intensity here builds through the palate, cassis fruit etched with graphite flowing with great control. Freshness and layers of violets lift from the glass. This is a wine with structure but seamlessly coated with ripe bramble fruit leading to a long gravelly finish.

The first vintage in the new cellar and the definition here is clear to see. There are beautifully defined aromatics of cedar and cocoa at first which melt into the gravelly cassis fruit. Charged with a mineral energy, this is a tension and vibrant wine that reflects the gravelly terroir of Pauillac so purely. Sinewy, sculpted tannin with plenty of flesh, this is going to be a long distance runner.

A wine to celebrate the 300th year anniversary of the estate, and what a wine it is. Deep and inky in colour with savoury tobacco spice and gravelly, pencil shaving notes. There is richness and density here but never too much. Fine, ripe and well-integrated tannin with lift and energy to the fruit. This is clearly a wine with a long ageing potential, and will turn into a truly classic St Julien.

The Petit Verdot performed very well this year so it represents 4% of the final blend of the Grand Vin, the rest comprises of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% merlot, and 5% Cabernet Franc. There is tension and rather chiselled profile here. Classic, not overstated, there is some flesh but also a brightness and energy. Very fine grain here, there is richness that amplifies with dark berry fruit, gravel, sandalwood and real poise on the finish.

A fine, gravelly character here the wine has both power and poise. It opens with notes of sandalwood, a little soy, dark berry fruit which shows a silky and rounded character. A big step up for this wine, this is both bold and tense. Seamless, gravelly, with mineral inflections. Certainly the best Haut Batailley to date.

A blend of 62% Merlot, 26.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 11.8% Cabernet Franc this feels like a modern classic. Gravelly, dense and tense, there is a muscular frame to the wine yet with a detail and lightness of touch. Aromas of sandalwood, incense and wild herbs lift from the core of cassis fruit. Excellent density here, powerful and classy yet remaining tense and focused. There is an unrelenting energy - classical and aristocratic.

Such an enjoyable Pomerol, with vivid aromatics of violets, dark cherry fruit and accents of cocoa. Seamless and controlled there is lots of life to this wine. Only 5000 bottles made, it is a wine you shouldn't hesitate to add to your cellar.

Very low quantities this year, but this wine really has a wow-factor. Density with levity. Wonderfully pure definition of wild herbs, violets, cocoa and dark berry fruit, the palate is coated with a caress of inky Merlot. This has drama and layers of complexity that spiral from the intense core of fruit, with a confidence and drive that builds to the finish.

A benchmark Gaffeliere, the Cabernet Franc speaks quite strongly here with notes of wild herbs, dark cherry and a hint of white pepper. Fine-grained and supple, the wine gains in momentum on the palate with a bright, vibrant and violet tinged finish. One of the best wines from this estate in recent years.

A very classy, seductive La Mission with flows over the palate with a velvety charm and intensity. Violets, crushed rocks, sandalwood and soy. There is a seamless form that floats over the palate with a real mineral accent that wraps around the fruit. Superbly long, sapid, this is a wine of great definition, tension and elegance.

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.

Explosive aromatics of violets and peony, this is a wonderfully stylish Laroque this year. Coating the palate with al dente cherry fruit, there is a silky and saline flow here. Notes of iodine, kelp and liquorice add nuance. Approachable young, this will age beautifully with super tension and elegance.

Explosive aromatics of violets and peony, this is a wonderfully stylish Laroque this year. Coating the palate with al dente cherry fruit, there is a silky and saline flow here. Notes of iodine, kelp and liquorice add nuance. Approachable young, this will age beautifully with super tension and elegance.