Bordeaux 2025: Fresh and fragrant wines abound in Pauillac

A fabulous Mouton with real personality and character and much more seductive than other wines from Pauillac this year. Dark fruit but cool, black cherries...

What a stunning Pichon Comtesse. A salty element on the nose, fragrant blackcurrant. Ripe and softly fleshy, this fills the mouth straight away with the...

Supple and ample in the mouth with a bright, mouth-watering core and sides of crushed stones, velvety soft but there’s something so deep and layered...

Vivid purple colour in the glass. Cool blue fruit, graphite and wet stones on the nose. Succulent and juicy, ripe and lifted, with supple tannins...

Dark berry fruit aromas. Ripe and grippy, this takes hold straight away with upfront tannins making their mark, covering the mouth in a fine layer...

Wild flowers, bramble fruit, dark blackcurrants and a lick of cocoa powder and cinnamon spice. Supple and alive, wow, this is excellent, the juicy quality...

Aromatic intensity, wild flowers, some chocolate and blackcurrant notes. Red cherries. Grippy and filling but soft, chalky and saline, a gorgeous weight on the palate...

One of the best Haut-Bages Libérals I've tasted from barreel. Perfumed blackcurrants, quite dark and true to form with a gorgeous perfume. Aromatics are great....

Dried floral scents, some cocoa powder, mint, red berries and sweet rose petals. Clean and crystalline, a lovely purity and soft chalky touch to the...

Upfront and instantly so welcoming and friendly and fun, bright, lively, full on acidity kicks off the expression – so lifted with the focus on...

Fragrant blackcurrants and dried herbs on the nose. Really succulent and grippy straight away, immediately so charming and soft, almost creamy with a touch of...

Raspberries and red cherries on the nose with some rose petal aromas. Juicy and alive, great energy and brightness straight away, so generous, plump, a...

Lovely fragrance and intensity of aromatics, blackcurrants and cherries with some dried herbal notes. Supple and grippy, chalky and filling but with such delicacy that...

Deep violets and heady blackcurrants on the nose, fresh though, inviting and crystalline – aromatically expressive. Supple and sapid with a real hands-off feeling. Approachable...

Dark aromas on the nose, fragrant purple flowers, tobacco, cedar, liquorice and black cherries – smells quite medicinal. Round and so well textured – smooth...

Juicy and clean, there’s such captivating energy here – tight and compact as you’d expect, firm but forward too. With pristine fruit, dark liquorice and...

Juicy blackcurrants on the nose, smells pure and pristine. Smells really alive too, lots of energy with this wine. Supple and succulent, a great crisp,...

The second vintage of a small plot selection with a higher percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon with ageing only in amphora and no new oak. Smells...

Raspberry and rose petal aromas, creamy strawberry scents too. A lively kick of acidity starts this expression before focusing and revealing grippy but clean and...

Pink rose petals and some dark blackcurrant fruit. Super smooth and full of life – this is energetic and focused with almost sweet red cherries...

Blackcurrant leaf, dark fruit and some black chocolate and dried floral scents. Supple with lovely energy and flex. Grippy but also chewy so you get...

Lovely fragrance, raspberry flowers. Creamy, aromatic, expressive. Supple and fleshy at first, the tannins gripping and present in the mouth but the acidity takes over...

Supple and so friendly and generous straight away, charming, fleshy and ripe, chewy even, but balanced by a really juicy, strawberry, red berry succulent and...

Wild floral scents on the nose with dark berry fruit – blackcurrants and plums. Some tobacco and liquorice too. Plump, wide, round and so smooth,...

Clean fragrance on the nose, black fruit and wild purple flowers with some creamy chocolate and vanilla touches. Round and filling, but less fleshy than...

Floral fragrance, lots of purple flowers on the nose with aromatic blue and black berry fruit. Supple and so creamy, this is just gorgeous from...

Tight at the moment, little tannic and serious but well framed with structure and fruit at the fore. Pure and dark, but cool and fresh...

Gorgeous rich and ripe but still cool notes on the nose. Round and fruit forward, juicy strawberries and black cherries, grippy but chalky so it’s...

Yummy, cool acidity starts the expression with lovely soft, creamy, powdery tannins. I really like the cool Cabernet aspect here with soft dried herbs and...