Château d'Armailhac 2025

Critic scores

• James Suckling95-96
• Decanter96
• Jeb Dunnuck93-95
• Wine Advocate91-93
• Vinous91-93

The 2025 vintage in Pauillac

Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched.

Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.

Tasting

Château d'Armailhac 2025 is a very complete wine which combines contained power, great elegance and a wide aromatic palette ranging from fresh fruits like redcurrant and its tangy side, to ripe black fruits like blackberries, and even some lemony notes. With good length, it stretches on the palate while retaining a lot of freshness and does not present the sunny character that the climatology of the vintage might have predicted. Its personality reflects its Pauillac identity in this vintage which particularly expresses the richness of the diversity of its terroirs.

Blend of the 2025 vintage

Figures from the 2025 sheet

• 40 yrsVine age

Winemaking

In stainless steel tanks for 15 to 20 days

Ageing

18 months in oak barrels (50% new)

Terroir

Château d'Armailhac lies in the northern part of the commune of Pauillac. It has 69 hectares of vines. Château d'Armailhac is made up of three groups of parcels: the Levantines and Obélisque plateau (26 hectares), an extension of the celebrated Carruades plateau of Mouton, made up of light and very deep gravel, the terroir of choice for the Cabernets; the Pibran plateau (19 hectares), whose gravel rests on a partly clay-limestone subsoil, hence the finesse and elegance characteristic of the wines of Château d'Armailhac; and the Béhéré gravel rise (5 hectares), of light gravel which can nonetheless run down to 3 metres deep.