Saint-Émilion · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 93-95 from Jeb DunnuckBarrel-sample tasting range. And 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2025 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionA dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness.
Critic scores
- Jeb Dunnuck93-95
- James Suckling93-94
- Vinous91-93
- Decanter93
The 2025 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. 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
“Carried by citrus notes on the nose and on the palate, Chauvin 2025 is held together by freshness.” - RVF
Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 73 % Merlot
- 22 % Cabernet franc
- 5 % Cabernet sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 65 % merlot, 31 % cabernet franc, 4 % cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 28 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Cold pre-fermentation maceration for 2 to 5 days around 8°C Alcoholic fermentation in thermoregulated stainless steel vats Malolactic fermentation in barrels Vatting for 20 to 30 days - gentle and slow extraction
Ageing
In French oak barrels 43% new barrels
Terroir
Château Chauvin lies in the north-west of the commune of Saint-Émilion, halfway between Cheval-Blanc and the Butte de Rol, close to the Pomerol appellation. Chauvin's terroir is of a clay-sand type; it benefits from the presence of pseudogley and of a crasse de fer (iron-rich hardpan) similar to that found in certain Pomerol terroirs. Thanks to its low water-retention capacity, the soil comes under water stress quickly, allowing the grapes to ripen faster. Effective drainage across the whole vineyard also ensures very good run-off during the wettest periods. The vineyard forms a single block around the property, which facilitates the meticulous vineyard work carried out by the château's teams throughout the growing season.
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Texts and documents 2025
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.