Château Margaux 2025
Margaux 1er Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£2,034.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.8% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2035 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2065 |
| Grapes: 89% Cabernet Sauvignon; 6% Merlot; 4% Cabernet Franc; 1% Petit Verdot | |
Critic scores
97-100 RP, 96-98 NM, 97-99 AG, 98-99 JS, 98-100 JD, 98-100 LPB, 98-100 JA, 98 DC, 98-100 JL, 97-99 DB, 98-99 YB, 96 GM
Critic reviews
"A blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2025 Château Margaux is a deep, authoritative wine that represents some 37% of the estate's production this year. Unwinding in the glass with notes of dark berries, violets, lilac and pencil shavings, framed by a deft touch of new oak, it's medium- to full-bodied, dense and layered, with a concentrated core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins and lively acids. This will certainly require some patience, but it is a prodigious Château Margaux in the making. It checks in at 13.8% alcohol and a pH of 3.72."
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Château Margaux was picked at 22 hl/ha between 10 and 29 September. This year it represents 37% of the total crop, a little down on recent vintages, and was matured in 100% new oak as usual. The first thing that you notice on this Château Margaux is the purity of fruit, a signature of the First Growth but taken to its maximum in this vintage. Perfumed blueberry, crushed violet and iris flower, a touch of iodine and a distant trace of the estuary. Wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with velvety tannins, fine delineation and poise. There is backbone to this Margaux but it is disguised under the layers of pure blackberry and blueberry fruit, dovetailing into a lightly spiced but very persistent finish. It fans out wonderfully, completing a very alluring wine in the making. This vintage contains 13.8% alcohol."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Château Margaux is shaping up to be one of the wines of this young vintage. Dark and layered, almost mysterious in bearing, the 2025 is going to have a lot to say over the coming decades as it grows up. Today, its superb persistence and exceptional balance are the harbingers. Here, too, there's a ton of tannin, but also more than enough fruit and overall density to keep things in balance."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"More dense and yet more soft than the Pavillon Rouge, fully anchored in place and yet rising through the palate, with rose petals, pomegranate, cassis and damson fruits, so juicy and full of character, slate and crushed rocks, peony and iris, with volume that is expansive and striking. These guys held on to harvest after the rains and have been rewarded for it - can't have been easy as everyone was picking around them, but this was a great decision that shows just what was capable in this vintage. 22hl/ha yield across the vineyard, harvest September 8 for young Merlot, then Cabernet Sauvignon began September 19 and finished September 29. 14% press wine, so a little less than usual because of the natural concentration. 22hl/ha yield across the vineyard, IPT81,3.76ph. 37% 1st wine. I dont give 100 points En Primeur, but if I did, this would get it. It's a slam dunk."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Easily one of the wines of the vintage and clear contender for a 100-point wine that benefited from slightly later picking after the rain with the Cabernets harvested from the 19 September. So floral, what a wonderful bouquet of aromas with wild flowers, medicinal herbs and touches of eucalyptus. Crushed velvet, round and enveloping, so balanced with energy and flair. Juicy and alive, bright with fresh strawberries and cherries and a chalky backbone. Grippy with lovely salinity and focus. Feels incredibly sophisticated, a touch firm but pure and precise with refinement. You can feel the structure – it has concentration but an almost aerial quality that just glides over the tongue. So delicate for so much concentration – really a powerful yet almost understated wine with plenty of Margaux charm, ripe but cool fruit and aromatic purity. So perfect and nothing missing. 37% grand vin (lowest production since 1856 with yields of just 22hl/ha). 1% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 3.72pH. 81 IPT."
Geogina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Margaux; 89% Cabernet Sauvignon; 6% Merlot; 4% Cabernet Franc; 1% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 22 hl/ha; pH 3.72; IPT 81; 13.8% alcohol; tasted with Philippe Bascaules at Château Margaux; the grand vin is 37% of the total production). Sublime. Coming after Pavillon, this too is gorgeously poised and focussed. It has an intensity and a verticality, both aromatic and on the palate, that is striking. It is also a little more solar than Pavillon and, indeed, many of its appellation neighbours, a product at least in part of the late picking dates. Dark berries, sloe and damson, with none of its customary cedar at this stage, a little walnut shell, kalamata olive tapenade, white pepper and some graphite. But today this is more about the purity of its fruit than anything else. It is radiant and divinely beautiful yet undemonstrative. In the mouth this is divine. The attack is gentle and silky at first. And then comes the unheralded but striking arrival of the blackcurrant. It brings with it a wonderful, almost cooling fresh sapidity to the very heart of the palate. There's a hint of myrrh and incense too. This is vivid, essentially fresh, sapid and juicy, and brilliantly lifted on the finish. A wine of a beautiful harmony and the star of the appellation once again."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Château Margaux was picked at 22 hl/ha between 10 and 29 September. This year it represents 37% of the total crop, a little down on recent vintages, and was matured in 100% new oak as usual. The first thing that you notice on this Château Margaux is the purity of fruit, a signature of the First Growth but taken to its maximum in this vintage. Perfumed blueberry, crushed violet and iris flower, a touch of iodine and a distant trace of the estuary. Wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with velvety tannins, fine delineation and poise. There is backbone to this Margaux but it is disguised under the layers of pure blackberry and blueberry fruit, dovetailing into a lightly spiced but very persistent finish. It fans out wonderfully, completing a very alluring wine in the making. This vintage contains 13.8% alcohol."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Château Margaux is shaping up to be one of the wines of this young vintage. Dark and layered, almost mysterious in bearing, the 2025 is going to have a lot to say over the coming decades as it grows up. Today, its superb persistence and exceptional balance are the harbingers. Here, too, there's a ton of tannin, but also more than enough fruit and overall density to keep things in balance."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"More dense and yet more soft than the Pavillon Rouge, fully anchored in place and yet rising through the palate, with rose petals, pomegranate, cassis and damson fruits, so juicy and full of character, slate and crushed rocks, peony and iris, with volume that is expansive and striking. These guys held on to harvest after the rains and have been rewarded for it - can't have been easy as everyone was picking around them, but this was a great decision that shows just what was capable in this vintage. 22hl/ha yield across the vineyard, harvest September 8 for young Merlot, then Cabernet Sauvignon began September 19 and finished September 29. 14% press wine, so a little less than usual because of the natural concentration. 22hl/ha yield across the vineyard, IPT81,3.76ph. 37% 1st wine. I dont give 100 points En Primeur, but if I did, this would get it. It's a slam dunk."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Easily one of the wines of the vintage and clear contender for a 100-point wine that benefited from slightly later picking after the rain with the Cabernets harvested from the 19 September. So floral, what a wonderful bouquet of aromas with wild flowers, medicinal herbs and touches of eucalyptus. Crushed velvet, round and enveloping, so balanced with energy and flair. Juicy and alive, bright with fresh strawberries and cherries and a chalky backbone. Grippy with lovely salinity and focus. Feels incredibly sophisticated, a touch firm but pure and precise with refinement. You can feel the structure – it has concentration but an almost aerial quality that just glides over the tongue. So delicate for so much concentration – really a powerful yet almost understated wine with plenty of Margaux charm, ripe but cool fruit and aromatic purity. So perfect and nothing missing. 37% grand vin (lowest production since 1856 with yields of just 22hl/ha). 1% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 3.72pH. 81 IPT."
Geogina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Margaux; 89% Cabernet Sauvignon; 6% Merlot; 4% Cabernet Franc; 1% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 22 hl/ha; pH 3.72; IPT 81; 13.8% alcohol; tasted with Philippe Bascaules at Château Margaux; the grand vin is 37% of the total production). Sublime. Coming after Pavillon, this too is gorgeously poised and focussed. It has an intensity and a verticality, both aromatic and on the palate, that is striking. It is also a little more solar than Pavillon and, indeed, many of its appellation neighbours, a product at least in part of the late picking dates. Dark berries, sloe and damson, with none of its customary cedar at this stage, a little walnut shell, kalamata olive tapenade, white pepper and some graphite. But today this is more about the purity of its fruit than anything else. It is radiant and divinely beautiful yet undemonstrative. In the mouth this is divine. The attack is gentle and silky at first. And then comes the unheralded but striking arrival of the blackcurrant. It brings with it a wonderful, almost cooling fresh sapidity to the very heart of the palate. There's a hint of myrrh and incense too. This is vivid, essentially fresh, sapid and juicy, and brilliantly lifted on the finish. A wine of a beautiful harmony and the star of the appellation once again."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com