Château Beychevelle 2025
St-Julien 4ème Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£377.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: % | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2035 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2060 |
| Grapes: 52% Cabernet Sauvignon; 43% Merlot; 5% Petit Verdot | |
Critic scores
92-93 RP, 95-97 NM, 95-97 AG, 95-96 JS, 96-98 JD, 94-96 LPB, 93 JA, 94 DC, 96-98 JL, 93-95 DB
Critic reviews
"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."
Yohan Castaing, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"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."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"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."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"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."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"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"
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Julien; 52% Cabernet Sauvignon; 43% Merlot; 5% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 32 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin). A relatively easy pick blind, at least once one has this in one's mouth, with those most gracious and delicate, ultra-fine-grained and creamy Beychevelle tannins. This is perhaps a little narrower in frame and a little tighter to the spine than usual but it's charged with red and darker berry fruits, if a little less of its customary black cherry. This is fresh and dynamic though also a little less aromatically expressive at this early stage than is often the case en primeur. That said, as I return to the glass, the black cherries are starting to appear and a delicate florality is pushing up through the compact layers of fruit and I find even that little hint of walnut shell that I so often find here."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
Yohan Castaing, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"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."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"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."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"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."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"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"
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Julien; 52% Cabernet Sauvignon; 43% Merlot; 5% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 32 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin). A relatively easy pick blind, at least once one has this in one's mouth, with those most gracious and delicate, ultra-fine-grained and creamy Beychevelle tannins. This is perhaps a little narrower in frame and a little tighter to the spine than usual but it's charged with red and darker berry fruits, if a little less of its customary black cherry. This is fresh and dynamic though also a little less aromatically expressive at this early stage than is often the case en primeur. That said, as I return to the glass, the black cherries are starting to appear and a delicate florality is pushing up through the compact layers of fruit and I find even that little hint of walnut shell that I so often find here."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com