Wines of the Year 2025: Bordeaux & Burgundy

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Bordeaux

It’s not every year that a vintage like 2022 rolls around. Despite the year’s unprecedented hot, dry conditions – including three extreme-heat events that occurred during June, July and August – it ultimately delivered some fabulous wines with freshness, charm and mass appeal.

From the nine wines rated 100 points during 2025 (six of which were from 2022), three have made this list, with two of the eight 99pt wines (seven of them from 2022) joining them.

I’ve bypassed the perennial first-growth giants and Right Bank titans (Petrus, Lafleur) to spotlight estates that, in this vintage, touched perfection while staying (just) within reach of collectors.

In my view, these wines not only showcase the high quality across appellations, with both sides of the river covered, but they’re all among the best I’ve ever tasted from their respective estates.

They may not be wines for immediate consumption, but they will certainly reward patience and would make fine additions to any cellar. Other top-performers during 2025 came from the lauded 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 vintages, with a few 1985s among the stars showcasing the power of Bordeaux’s best vintages.

In total, 247 wines – red, white and sweet – scored 95pts or above from 26 vintages from 2024 back to 1945 across all major and lesser-known appellations, showing Bordeaux’s universal appeal.

Georgie Hindle, Regional Editor

Burgundy

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti represented five of the six highest-scoring Burgundy wines in 2025. A fantastic achievement, but not necessarily a surprising one.

Likewise, the highest-scorer in this quintet may not shock you, dear reader, as Domaine Armand Rousseau is one of Burgundy’s greatest. In our correspondent Charles Curtis MW’s en primeur reporting, he called its Chambertin-Clos de Bèze Grand Cru ‘one of the greatest Burgundy wines of the 2023 vintage’.

The elegance and finesse of the wines from Domaine Anne Gros became apparent in Curtis’ profile published on Decanter Premium online in October, and her Richebourg Grand Cru 2009 is showing beautifully.

A fairly new project, Domaine Alvina Pernot has shot to star status, and Curtis finds her Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru to be one of the jewels of the hill of Corton, while the ‘wizard of Chablis’ Vincent Dauvissat unveiled a ‘stupendous’ Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos in the 2023 vintage.

The three judges in our Cru Beaujolais 2022 panel tasting (March 2025 issue) were floored by the quality on show, and among the 13 wines rated Outstanding, the tiny estate of Antoine Sunier really knocked their socks off, with two wines scoring 95 points.

The inclusion of Sunier’s Régnié in this selection speaks volumes about the ability of the Beaujolais crus to offer superb terroir focus, complexity and charm.

Natalie Earl, Regional Editor