Saint-Émilion · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 97-98 from James SucklingBarrel-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.
- Limited production40 000 bottles of this vintage.
Critic scores
- James Suckling97-98
- Jeb Dunnuck96-98
- Decanter97
- Wine Advocate94-96
- Vinous94-96
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
"Opaque red color. With an umbilical depth, dense, this bouquet envelops you with calm - a confident ripe fruit, a precise and pure red rose, like a return to the origins. The palate is incredibly full, spherical in its substance, both ample and airy, with a weight in suspension. Dynamic and powerful, it stretches out to a long juicy finish." - Le Figaro
Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 84 % Merlot
- 10 % Cabernet franc
- 6 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with merlot, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 28 hl/haYield
- 35 yrsVine age
- 40,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Natural fermentation with whole berries in 25 small capacity thermo-regulated stainless steel vats, gentle extraction by manual punching down, vatting for 21 to 26 days, malolactic fermentation in vats
Ageing
40% new barrels - 58% barrels of 1 wine - 2% in jars 14 to 18 months ageing in underground cellars
Terroir
Clos Fourtet has a naturally drained terroir of clay-limestone soil with a shallow topsoil. The plantings are 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc. The vines, with an average age of 25 years, are worked in a traditional and considered manner: use of organic and mineral fertilisers, debudding, protection of the embryonic bunches and of the vine stocks against disease, mites and fungi, leaf removal, and green harvesting to optimise concentration.
An offer on Clos Fourtet 2025
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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, labels. 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.