Pauillac · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 95-96 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2025 vintage in PauillacA dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched.
Critic scores
- James Suckling95-96
- Wine Advocate93-95
- Decanter95
- Vinous92-94
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
“A fruity and tasty red wine, with aromas and notes of blackberry, chocolate, dried meat and earth. Medium-bodied, it offers a beautiful richness of taste and a finish with undergrowth notes. Ripe tannins. ” -James Suckling
Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 73 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 27 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, sauvignon blanc, sauvignon gris, sémillon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 260,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Château Duhart-Milon is vinified using traditional Bordeaux winemaking methods. The grapes are subjected to meticulous sorting then, depending on their plot of origin, they are placed in cement or stainless steel vats for alcoholic fermentation. Light pump-over is carried out during fermentation to optimize extraction. The total maceration time is approximately 20 days.
Ageing
Following the malolactic fermentation process, the wines are barreled into French oak barrels manufactured by the Tonnellerie des Domaines in Pauillac. The barrels are subject to an individual tasting carried out in December for a strict selection of the great wine. Following this selection, the wine is blended then put into oak barrels (50% new oak).
Terroir
The vineyard of Château Duhart-Milon lies almost as a single block on the western side of Château Lafite Rothschild, on the Milon slope that extends the Carruades plateau of Lafite. The Château Duhart-Milon estate comprises 76 ha of vines. The soils are fine gravels mixed with aeolian sands over a subsoil of Tertiary limestone. Strict control of yields, hand harvesting and a great deal of work carried out by hand throughout the year.
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Texts and documents 2025
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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.