Sauternes · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 95-97 from Jeb DunnuckBarrel-sample tasting range. And 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2025 vintage in SauternesRegular morning mists in a dry autumn brought back honest botrytis: clean, nicely taut wines.
- Limited production37 000 bottles of this vintage.
Critic scores
- Jeb Dunnuck95-97
- Decanter96
- James Suckling94-95
- Vinous91
The 2025 vintage in Sauternes
Vintage benchmark: 93/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Regular morning mists in a dry autumn brought back honest botrytis: clean, nicely taut wines.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Sauternes. 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
Château Guiraud 2025 offers exceptional precision and aromatic clarity. The first nose is fresh with notes of vine peach and white flowers. The second nose, very typical of Botrytis, reveals riper notes such as apricot and roasted pineapple, accompanied by delicate aromas of thyme, dried herbs, garrigue and oak moss. The palate, although rich, demonstrates a liveliness and rare energy, without compromising the silkiness. The menthol notes provide appreciable freshness and help digest the 145 g/L of residuals. The wine meets the house standards: all finesse and balance.
Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 66 % Sémillon
- 27 % Sauvignon blanc
- 7 % Sauvignon gris
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with sémillon, sauvignon blanc, sauvignon gris, muscadelle — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 14 hl/haYield
- 37,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts, in new French oak barrels and in wine barrels
Ageing
18 months in new barrels and in French oak wine barrels
Terroir
80% sandy gravels 20% clay gravels
Subsoils: deep translucent sands and pure gravels shot through with veins of red and white clay, limestone marls and bands of oyster limestone.
An offer on Château Guiraud 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.