Saint-Émilion · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 94-95 from James SucklingBarrel-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
- James Suckling94-95
- Jeb Dunnuck92-94
- 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
"Delicious! The nose offers crisp, bright black fruit, with a few notes of thyme. The palate is energetic, ringed by powdery, finely grippy tannins. It stands out for its zesty finish, which comes from the 95% Merlot grown in a warm vintage. The mosaic of soils
offers great diversity, both aromatic and mineral, on the finish." - RVF
Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 95 % Merlot
- 5 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet franc, merlot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 36 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
Label
Winemaking
Fermentation in small temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, moderate extraction, cuvaison of 24 to 28 days
Ageing
25% new barrels; 25% one-wine barrels; 25% two-wine barrels; 25% tank. 14 months of ageing
Terroir
Clay-limestone and clay-sand.
An offer on Château Côte de Baleau 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. 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.