Pessac-Léognan · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 97-99 from Jeb DunnuckBarrel-sample tasting range. And 2 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2025 vintage in Pessac-LéognanA dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched.
Critic scores
- Jeb Dunnuck97-99
- Vinous96-98
- Decanter98
The 2025 vintage in Pessac-Léognan
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 Pessac-Léognan. 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
The legend of the "5" vintages continues this year again and 2025 will have nothing to envy of its glorious ancestors 2015, 2005... and 1945. The meeting of all the essential conditions for the development of a great vintage associated with precise and delicate vinification gives unctuous, balanced, deep and harmonious wines, carried by a beautiful aromatic intensity and preserved freshness, signatures of the great vintages of Haut-Bailly.
Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 55 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 36 % Merlot
- 5 % Cabernet franc
- 4 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 60 % cabernet sauvignon, 34 % merlot, 3 % cabernet franc, 3 % petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Winemaking
3 weeks in thermo-regulated cement vats then in stainless steel vats for blend and placement.
Ageing
ageing for 16 months • 50% new barrels. French oak barrels from 7 different coopers.
Terroir
A Grand Cru Classé at the gates of Bordeaux, Château Haut-Bailly looks out majestically over a 30-hectare vineyard in a single block, established on one of the highest gravel rises of the left bank. It benefits from an excellent gradient of the slopes, effective drainage and well-distributed ditches that carry the water away in wet years. Of the three components of terroir, the soil is the most subtle: here it combines a soil of sands mixed with gravels that slipped down in the Quaternary era with a subsoil of falun, or petrified fossil stone, which is one of its major characteristics.
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Texts and documents 2025
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Visuals
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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.