Pauillac · vintage 2025
Why this vintage
- 98-100 from Wine AdvocateBarrel-sample tasting range. And 3 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
- Wine Advocate98-100
- James Suckling97-98
- Jeb Dunnuck96-98
- Vinous94-96
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
Le millésime 2025 se présente comme éclatant : concentré, juteux, expressif, structuré et élégant. C’est sans doute un très grand millésime pour le domaine et un grand Pontet-Canet !
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Blend of the 2025 vintage
- 56 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 39 % Merlot
- 4 % Cabernet franc
- 1 % Petit verdot
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
- 50 yrsVine age
- 250,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Au chai, la consigne a été constante : respecter le raisin et ne pas chercher l’excès. Pas de pigeage en 2025, seulement quelques saignées ponctuelles. Rigueur et précision ont présidé à chaque étape : tri, gestion des levures indigènes, conduite des fermentations, oxygénation et inertage, tout a été ajusté dans le but de préserver l’intégrité des raisins et du travail de la vigne.
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Ageing
50 % en barriques neuves, 35 % en amphores en béton, 15 % en barriques de 1 vin - pendant 16 à 18 mois.
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Terroir
The lands of Château Pontet-Canet lie at the heart of the Pauillac appellation, south of the neighbouring vineyards of Mouton Rothschild and d'Armailhac. Here it is the poverty of the soil that serves as the matrix for the greatest crus. The soil appears to be composed of nothing but gravel and sand, and it is hard to imagine that the vine can grow there. The 80 hectares of the Pontet-Canet vineyard are dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon, the well-known signature of the great wines of Pauillac. The terroir of Pontet-Canet consists of a rise of Garonne gravels over a limestone bedrock. It is a lean, warm and free-draining soil.
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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.