Clos du Marquis 2025
St-Julien
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£207.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.6% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2030 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2050 |
| Grapes: 73% Cabernet Sauvignon; 21% Merlot; 6% Cabernet Franc | |
Critic scores
92-94 RP, 91-93 NM, 90-93 AG, 94-95 JS, 93-95 JD, 93-95 LPB, 90-93 JA, 95 DC, 92-94 JL, 94-96 DB, 96-97 YB
Critic reviews
"The 2025 Clos du Marquis is a serious wine that will reward patience. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries, crème de cassis, violets and burning embers, it's medium- to full-bodied, deep and layered, with bright acids and a chassis of ripe, powdery but abundant tannins. The blend this year is 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc."
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Clos du Marquis was harvested between September 8 and 20 at 24 hl/ha and matured in 55% new oak for a planned 16 months. This has a fragrant and intense bouquet, with just a hint of lavender suffusing the black cherry and blackcurrant scents, more blue fruit surfacing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied, with a powerful entry, quite precocious licorice-tinged black fruit. A little "heady" in style, I feel that the warmth of that summer comes through more here compared to the Las Cases."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Clos du Marquis is a potent, brooding wine. A rush of dark-toned fruit, gravel, incense, licorice, tobacco and scorched earth hits the palate. Cabernet Sauvignon takes the lead, and that very much comes through in the wine's savory character and structural profile. Lavender, mint, dried herbs and chocolate follow as the 2025 gains volume in the glass. There's a lot of wine here. I am looking forward to tasting this in finished form, given its considerable potential."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Clos du Marquis is a potent, brooding wine. A rush of dark-toned fruit, gravel, incense, licorice, tobacco and scorched earth hits the palate. Cabernet Sauvignon takes the lead, and that very much comes through in the wine's savory character and structural profile. Lavender, mint, dried herbs and chocolate follow as the 2025 gains volume in the glass. There's a lot of wine here. I am looking forward to tasting this in finished form, given its considerable potential."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Purple flowers and dark black fruit aromas. Rich in flavour, this is full of life, energy and depth with a soft chew to the tannins and ripe fleshy fruit but keeping a chalky cool element. Mouthfilling and very St-Julien this year – ripe and charming, friendly, so approachable – like a big hug. Juicy and mouthwatering though, this makes you smile! I love it, much more demonstrative than Le Petit right now. Gorgeous."
Geogina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Julien; 73% Cabernet Sauvignon; 21% Merlot; 6% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 24 hl/ha; pH 3.57; IPT 78; 13.6% alcohol; tasted in the new chai at Léoville Las Cases). Intimate and introspective at first with that slightly sombre, dark fruited character of the vintage. Incense, patchouli, rose petals, violet, black cherry, blueberry and cassis. The dark fruit is plump and perfectly al dente. Refined and elegant and, like Le Petit Lion but much more so, bulby in its florality - more obviously so in the depths of the mid-palate than aromatically. More luminous, too, much more layered and with the fine-grained tannins hiding between the layers, delineating and pixilating the fruit. The best ever from here."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Clos du Marquis was harvested between September 8 and 20 at 24 hl/ha and matured in 55% new oak for a planned 16 months. This has a fragrant and intense bouquet, with just a hint of lavender suffusing the black cherry and blackcurrant scents, more blue fruit surfacing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied, with a powerful entry, quite precocious licorice-tinged black fruit. A little "heady" in style, I feel that the warmth of that summer comes through more here compared to the Las Cases."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Clos du Marquis is a potent, brooding wine. A rush of dark-toned fruit, gravel, incense, licorice, tobacco and scorched earth hits the palate. Cabernet Sauvignon takes the lead, and that very much comes through in the wine's savory character and structural profile. Lavender, mint, dried herbs and chocolate follow as the 2025 gains volume in the glass. There's a lot of wine here. I am looking forward to tasting this in finished form, given its considerable potential."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Clos du Marquis is a potent, brooding wine. A rush of dark-toned fruit, gravel, incense, licorice, tobacco and scorched earth hits the palate. Cabernet Sauvignon takes the lead, and that very much comes through in the wine's savory character and structural profile. Lavender, mint, dried herbs and chocolate follow as the 2025 gains volume in the glass. There's a lot of wine here. I am looking forward to tasting this in finished form, given its considerable potential."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Purple flowers and dark black fruit aromas. Rich in flavour, this is full of life, energy and depth with a soft chew to the tannins and ripe fleshy fruit but keeping a chalky cool element. Mouthfilling and very St-Julien this year – ripe and charming, friendly, so approachable – like a big hug. Juicy and mouthwatering though, this makes you smile! I love it, much more demonstrative than Le Petit right now. Gorgeous."
Geogina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Julien; 73% Cabernet Sauvignon; 21% Merlot; 6% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 24 hl/ha; pH 3.57; IPT 78; 13.6% alcohol; tasted in the new chai at Léoville Las Cases). Intimate and introspective at first with that slightly sombre, dark fruited character of the vintage. Incense, patchouli, rose petals, violet, black cherry, blueberry and cassis. The dark fruit is plump and perfectly al dente. Refined and elegant and, like Le Petit Lion but much more so, bulby in its florality - more obviously so in the depths of the mid-palate than aromatically. More luminous, too, much more layered and with the fine-grained tannins hiding between the layers, delineating and pixilating the fruit. The best ever from here."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com