Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2025
Pauillac 5ème Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£228.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2034 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2055 |
| Grapes: 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot | |
Critic scores
95-97 RP, 94-96 NM, 92-94 AG, 96-97 JS, 94-96 JD, 92-94 LPB, 94 JA, 95 DC, 95-97 JL, 93-95 DB, 95 GM
Critic reviews
"The 2025 Grand-Puy-Lacoste reveals a classic, refined bouquet of cassis, dark berries, cedar and lead pencil, with discreet floral nuances. Medium- to full-bodied, structured and precise, it’s built around a well-defined core of fruit framed by finely grained, youthful, filigreed tannins with a tensile profile. Less demonstrative than some of its peers in Pauillac, it privileges balance and typicity over sheer power, concluding with a long, elegant and mineral finish. Produced from a blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot, this is the first vintage vinified in the estate’s new gravity-fed cellar, enabling more precise parcel selection—an evolution that appears to reinforce the wine’s precision and coherence."
Yohan Castaing, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is the first to be made in the new gravity-fed winery. It was picked between September 4 and 18 at 30 hl/ha, much lower than normal, with a high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon (76%). Matured in 65% new oak, it has a perfumed bouquet with blackberry and raspberry fruit, touches of graphite emerging with aeration, beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with edgy tannins. Definitely one of the most refined GPLs that I have tasted at this stage, very harmonious, complex and engaging. Superb persistence on the finish, this is a complete Pauillac that is going to give immense pleasure."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is a relatively fruity, soft wine for the château, notwithstanding the warm, dry year and yields 30 hectoliters per hectare (in line with the appellation, but much less than the norm). This is the first vintage Grand-Puy-Lacoste made in their new cellar, so the more vibrant style is not a total surprise. Even so, there is no question that 2025 opens the door to a new chapter. Stylistically, it is quite different from the wines that have preceded it."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Vibrant, in the spirit of the 2025 vintage, cloves, capsicum, blueberry and cassis fruits, plenty of delicious texture, lovely sappy and bright juice, firm tannins, appellation typicity, crayon and mint leaf. First year for the new cellar. 65% new oak for ageing"
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"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 with a clean, clear grip to the fine tannins, mint, cool blueberries, graphite and wet stones. The terroir really shines in the glass. Feels very modern with mouthwatering acidity setting the tone – bright, lively and upfront. Delicious, crunchy and leaves a lasting impression with grip, tension, energy and focus. Maybe a little less dense than usual but more refined. 13%. A yield of 30hl/ha."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pauillac; 76% Cabernet Sauvignon; 24 % Merlot; a final yield of 30 hl/ha; IPT 66; 13% alcohol; tasted with the Emeline and Pierre-Antoine Borie in the new chai at Grand-Puy Lacoste). Bright, crunchy and very lifted for GPL - and a little different from its habitual classicism, this is quite ample, naturally ripe and sweet-fruited and with a broad diversity of fruit components - raspberry, blueberry and a little purple plum. It's a little less floral than Lacoste-Borie (there's no Cabernet Frabc here). Plump, plush and pushing into the cheeks, this is distinctly succulent, juicy and sapid. The tannins are very fine-grained and the overall impression is of a wine of great clarity and a certain crystallinity yet also significant aging potential. A more modern style perhaps, or at least a move in the direction, this has a certain 'neo-classical' charm. Accessible but age-worthy; stylish yet reassuringly aristocratic."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
Yohan Castaing, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is the first to be made in the new gravity-fed winery. It was picked between September 4 and 18 at 30 hl/ha, much lower than normal, with a high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon (76%). Matured in 65% new oak, it has a perfumed bouquet with blackberry and raspberry fruit, touches of graphite emerging with aeration, beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with edgy tannins. Definitely one of the most refined GPLs that I have tasted at this stage, very harmonious, complex and engaging. Superb persistence on the finish, this is a complete Pauillac that is going to give immense pleasure."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is a relatively fruity, soft wine for the château, notwithstanding the warm, dry year and yields 30 hectoliters per hectare (in line with the appellation, but much less than the norm). This is the first vintage Grand-Puy-Lacoste made in their new cellar, so the more vibrant style is not a total surprise. Even so, there is no question that 2025 opens the door to a new chapter. Stylistically, it is quite different from the wines that have preceded it."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Vibrant, in the spirit of the 2025 vintage, cloves, capsicum, blueberry and cassis fruits, plenty of delicious texture, lovely sappy and bright juice, firm tannins, appellation typicity, crayon and mint leaf. First year for the new cellar. 65% new oak for ageing"
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"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 with a clean, clear grip to the fine tannins, mint, cool blueberries, graphite and wet stones. The terroir really shines in the glass. Feels very modern with mouthwatering acidity setting the tone – bright, lively and upfront. Delicious, crunchy and leaves a lasting impression with grip, tension, energy and focus. Maybe a little less dense than usual but more refined. 13%. A yield of 30hl/ha."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pauillac; 76% Cabernet Sauvignon; 24 % Merlot; a final yield of 30 hl/ha; IPT 66; 13% alcohol; tasted with the Emeline and Pierre-Antoine Borie in the new chai at Grand-Puy Lacoste). Bright, crunchy and very lifted for GPL - and a little different from its habitual classicism, this is quite ample, naturally ripe and sweet-fruited and with a broad diversity of fruit components - raspberry, blueberry and a little purple plum. It's a little less floral than Lacoste-Borie (there's no Cabernet Frabc here). Plump, plush and pushing into the cheeks, this is distinctly succulent, juicy and sapid. The tannins are very fine-grained and the overall impression is of a wine of great clarity and a certain crystallinity yet also significant aging potential. A more modern style perhaps, or at least a move in the direction, this has a certain 'neo-classical' charm. Accessible but age-worthy; stylish yet reassuringly aristocratic."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com