2025 Château Beychevelle
"...the 2025 is a wine of extreme pleasure. It is an exceptional Beychevelle, one of the finest in recent memory. 2035-2075. 95-97 points". Antonio Galloni, vinous.com
Released this morning at £377 per six, the 2025 Château Beychevelle has received scores of up to 96-98 points from leading critics. Tasting notes highlight plush, concentrated dark fruit, fine floral aromatics, and impressive mineral complexity. Beychevelle has produced a string of outstanding wines in recent vintages, but the 2025 appears to have the potential to surpass even acclaimed releases such as the 2023 and 2022.
Offered en primeur, landing spring 2028.
Magnums available with £25 ex-VAT bottling surcharge per six, please enquire re other formats.
All previous offers of 2025 Bordeaux can be found here.
Producer Profile
Château Beychevelle
Château Beychevelle is a Quatrièmes Cru Classé in Saint-Julien. A large print of the Beychevelle label stares down at us in the office, with its familiar image of a sailing ship, commemorating the admiral who once owned the château. Passing ships were required to lower their sales in his honour. The resemblance to a 'dragon boat' has made this a collectable wine in China and Beychevelle, resulting in a positive effect on its potential as an investment-grade wine.
The 90-hectare estate is run by Philippe Blanc. The classical château was built in the 17th century, reconstructed by the Marquis de Brassier in 1757, and extended by the Heine family at the end of the 19th century.
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Tasting Notes"The 2025 Beychevelle reveals a toasty, oak-marked bouquet of dark wild berries, licorice and spice. Medium- to full-bodied, structured and concentrated, it’s built around an assertive tannic frame, concluding with a long, spicy, licorice-inflected finish. While the wine is marked by both concentration and oak at this stage, élevage may bring greater finesse and a more integrated, enveloping tannic profile. 92-93 points". Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate, April 2026------"Cloves and grilled red peppers, deep mulberry fruits, this is so delicious, charcoal and liquorice, St Julien balance, really luscious and joyful. Yield 32 hl/ha. Philippe Blanc director. 2034-2044. 93 points. Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com, April 2026------"Such a gorgeous fragrance on the nose, so alive, so floral and expressive with milk chocolate, cherries and violets. Grippy and alive in the mouth, fun, bright, certainly full of tannins and grip with a lovely core of black bramble fruit with straight acidity. I like the very hands-off nature, it’s refined and finessed, still young and a little shy but lots of tannins are so well handled by the fruit purity and acidity. It’s a big, powerful, muscular wine but so poised, mouthwatering and charming. It has a spiced kick on the finish which adds to the complexity. 3.6pH. 80 IPT. 13% press wine. 60% of production. Reduced maceration by 5-7 days. Ageing 70% new oak. 2030-2044. 94 points." (GH) Decanter, Apr '26------"Spicy, with dark fruit aromas. Angular in style, with a linear profile and precise, focused tannins. It shows clarity, fresh dark fruit and balance that stands out. 95-96 points." James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, April 2026------"The 2025 Beychevelle is a very sexy wine. Plush and exuberant, the 2025 is seriously impressive right out of the gate. Blackberry, lavender, mocha, crème de cassis and a kick of French oak are all beautifully amplified in the glass. The blend is 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, with the plush richness of the Merlot very much in evidence. There's a lot of wine here. The 2025 spent three weeks on the skins, more or less the norm here, but it also includes 13% press wine, a bit higher than most years. More than anything else, the 2025 is a wine of extreme pleasure. It is an exceptional Beychevelle, one of the finest in recent memory. 2035-2075. 95-97 points". Antonio Galloni, vinous.com, April 2026------"The 2025 Beychevelle was picked from September 5 to 21 at 31 hl/ha, fairly reasonable for Saint-Julien this year, albeit the second lowest after 2013. Matured in 70% new oak, this has a concentrated nose with blackcurrants, blueberry, inkwell and light violet scents. Very fine definition, a Beychevelle that leans on the more opulent side aromatically, though always controlled. The palate is medium-bodied with a velvety smooth entry that lends it sensuality. Extremely precise, exquisite pure fruit, quite mineral-driven with a very long, quite sensual finish. I don't think Philippe Blanc has overseen a Beychevelle as good as this. 13.4% alcohol. Drinking Window 2032 - 2060. 95-97 points". Neal Martin, vinous.com, May 2026------"A brilliant, deeply hued wine, the 2025 Château Beychevelle is based on 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot, and is still resting in 70% new oak. One of the earliest harvests ever recorded at this château, with very tiny yields, it has a ripe, sexy, gorgeously textured style with ripe black cherries, graphite, spicy wood, and dried flowers on the nose. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, with a round, layered mouthfeel, velvety tannins, and a blockbuster finish. Hitting 13.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.6, this is a ripe, expressive Beychevelle that will evolve gracefully for 30 years or more. Tasted twice with consistent notes. 96-98 points" jebdunnock.com |
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