Pauillac · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 95-97 from VinousBarrel-sample tasting range. And 2 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
- Vinous95-97
- Decanter97
- Wine Advocate94-96
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
The pleasure of losing oneself in such complex fragrances... Blackberry and blackcurrant, obvious at first, give way to earthy violet, then to the Pauillac expression of brown tobacco and black tea leaves. What an intoxicating, overwhelming development! We are immersed in the perfumer's workshop, between top notes and heart notes...
The palate is vibrant, but also soft and elongated. The serene length of these cashmere-like tannins weaves on endlessly, confident, sure of itself, navigating between Pauillac nobility and Comtesse's own elegant sensuality.
Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 81 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 15 % Merlot
- 4 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2025 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2025 sheet
- 24 hl/haYield
- 28 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Plot-by-plot vinification with tank filling by gravity. Fermentation in temperature-controlled, double-walled, truncated-cone stainless steel tanks.
Ageing
Aged 18 months in barrel, 65% of which new oak, with a long-to-medium toast. Traditional racking without aeration and fining with egg whites.
Terroir
Close to the river, the 92 hectares of vines cross the Saint-Julien jalle to draw nearer to the Léoville plateau, before extending over the great Pichon Longueville plateau in the south of the Pauillac appellation. The exceptional richness of the Pauillac appellation is the result of a poor, meagre soil. The rises are formed of gravel over clay, a composition that ensures excellent drainage. It is these Quaternary gravels, known as Garonne gravels, and in particular those of the Günz terrace, the oldest and topographically the highest, that account for the quality of the finest vineyards of the Haut-Médoc.
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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.