Château Petit-Village 2025

Critic scores

• James Suckling96-97
• Jeb Dunnuck94-96
• Vinous92-94
• Decanter94

The 2025 vintage in Pomerol

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 Pomerol. 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 2019 vintage offers a very expressive nose with floral notes including violet, black fruits, liquorice and spices. The palate is ample with beautiful coated tannins and a very persistent aromatic finish.

Blend of the 2025 vintage

Figures from the 2025 sheet

• 13 % vol.Alcohol
• 16 hl/haYield
• 53 yrsVine age

Winemaking

Plot selection and densimetric sorting. Gentle extractions, manual pump-over and post-fermentation maceration according to the potential of each plot.

Ageing

Malolactic fermentation in barrels. ~16 months in oak barrels, including 45% in new barrels 5 different coopers 20% in 500L barrels

Terroir

Château Le Petit-Village lies at the heart of Pomerol, on a magnificent clay-gravel plateau. It is a single-block vineyard of 10.5 hectares forming a triangle. Its terroir is composed of deep gravels coated with light sandy clays over a subsoil of alios known as crasse de fer, characteristic of the great wines of Pomerol. Every terroir has a grape variety that remains true to it. At Château Petit-Village, each plot, with its own personality, is planted with the variety suited to it. Merlot predominates on the property (75%): it provides the flesh of the wine and gives it its velvety texture, its roundness and its generosity. To this are added Cabernet Franc (18%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (7%), varieties essential for structure and complexity.