Margaux · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 94-95 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 2 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2025 vintage in MargauxA dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched.
Critic scores
- James Suckling94-95
- Decanter94
- Vinous91-93
The 2025 vintage in Margaux
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 Margaux. 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 superb, inviting and heady nose, with deep, inky dark fruit and notes of charcoal. On the palate, smooth and refined like a gentleman in a three-piece suit, flavorful, with bitter chocolate and slate-like minerality, making for an elegant whole." - Le Figaro
Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 66 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 24 % Merlot
- 6 % Petit verdot
- 4 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, petit verdot, cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 25 hl/haYield
Winemaking
Plot-by-plot vinification.
Moderate extraction during the active phase, then gentle at the end of fermentation.
Maceration at a temperature between 24°C and 26°C. 22 days of vatting. No additives throughout the entire winemaking process.
Ageing
14 months, of which: 35% in new barrels, 35% in one-year-old barrels, 30% in ovoid tanks and amphorae.
Terroir
24 hectares of deep gravel over limestone marl. In the heart of the Margaux appellation.
An offer on Château Ferrière 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: 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 29, 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.