Saint-Émilion · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 98-100 from Wine AdvocateBarrel-sample tasting range. And 4 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
- Wine Advocate98-100
- James Suckling97-98
- Decanter98
- Vinous95-97
- Jeb Dunnuck95-97
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
« La contrainte hydrique de 2025 a réduit les volumes, mais elle a construit la matière. Les équilibres sont précis, la concentration est remarquable : nous retrouvons tous les marqueurs d’un très grand Cheval Blanc. Alors que les vieilles parcelles de Cabernet franc ont contribué à la puissance et à la concentration, les jeunes vignes ont été déterminantes dans la fraîcheur et l’éclat du millésime. Face à des extrêmes climatiques de plus en plus fréquents, ce millésime nous conforte dans les choix agronomiques engagés pour renforcer la résilience de notre vignoble. »
— Pierre‑Olivier Clouet
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Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 51 % Cabernet franc
- 45 % Merlot
- 4 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet franc, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, malbec — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 15 hl/haYield
Winemaking
Les grandes lignes de la vinification à Cheval Blanc reposent sur une maturation fraiche des raisins, une vinification parcellaire pure, des levures indigènes (sélectionnées sur le domaine), une extraction douce, une macération longue, des remontages manuels et un seul délestage au cours de 4 semaines de cuvaison. La fermentation malolactique se fait en cuve, puis les vins sont élevés en barriques.
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Ageing
18 mois de barriques (neuves 100 %) - Collage au blanc d'oeuf
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Terroir
Cheval Blanc's mosaic terroir of clay, sand and gravel is unique. Two good fairies watched over its cradle: Pomerol and Saint-Émilion. Soils and subsoils, configuration, sedimentation, water and mineral deficit — everything here combines to achieve the required concentration and to shape the wine's ageing. It is a very ancient history, going back to the Quaternary and to the sediments of the nearby Isle river. A geological union for an exceptional wine, for the quality of the soil determines the success of the grape variety. At Cheval Blanc, the conjunction of a terroir of the very highest quality with an unusual varietal mix gives the wine a unique organoleptic personality.
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Texts and documents 2025
The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.
Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
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.