Chateau Beychevelle 2025

Jeb Dunnuck: A brilliant, deeply hued wine, the 2025 Château Beychevelle is based on 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot, and is still resting in 70% new oak. One of the earliest harvests ever recorded at this château, with very tiny yields, it has a ripe, sexy, gorgeously textured style with ripe black cherries, graphite, spicy wood, and dried flowers on the nose. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, with a round, layered mouthfeel, velvety tannins, and a blockbuster finish. Hitting 13.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.6, this is a ripe, expressive Beychevelle that will evolve gracefully for 30 years or more. Tasted twice with consistent notes."

The Wine Cellar Insider: The floral bouquet is what you initially notice; from there, your attention quickly turns to its array of red and black fruits, licorice, tobacco, mint leaves, and cedar. The palate is elegant, silky, creamy, fresh, and concentrated. It takes just a second to sense the wealth of fruit on the palate, with vibrancy, refinement, and purity. The finish continues along the same path, with layers of perfectly ripe fruit, a touch of salinity, and hints of licorice, espresso, and cocoa. Clearly, this is among the best wines in the estate's history. If you allow it a few years in the bottle before pulling a cork, it will be even better and should provide you with pleasure for two or more decades with ease. The wine is a blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot. 13.4% ABV, pH 3.6. The harvest took place from September 5 to September 20. This marks the earliest harvest vintage in the estate's history. Yields were 31 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2030-2065."

James Suckling: Spicy, with dark fruit aromas. Angular in style, with a linear profile and precise, focused tannins. It shows clarity, fresh dark fruit and balance that stands out."

Vinum: Subtil reduktiv, reife, dunkle Frucht, Grafit, florale Noten, Blutorange; am Gaumen saftig und gut strukturiert, top Säure, viel Würze, die Tannine machen sich erst ganz hinten im Gaumen bemerkbar, tragen den Wein in ein langes Finale. Ein klassischer Beychevelle, der diesen warmen und doch frischen Jahrgang wunderbar spiegelt."

Falstaff: Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Reife dunkle Beerenfrucht, frische Zwetschken, ein Hauch von Cassis und Nougat, kandierte Orangenzesten unterlegt. Saftig, elegant, reife Kirschen, feine Tannine, frischer Abgang, mineralisch und anhaftend, sicheres Entwicklungspotenzial."

Lisa Perrotti-Brown: Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Beychevelle races out of the glass with vibrant notes of fresh blueberries, black currant jelly, and red currants, plus nuances of lilacs, charcoal, and iron ore. Medium-bodied, the palate shines with bright black, blue, and red berry flavors, supported by a lively backbone and fine-grained tannins, finishing on a lingering ferrous note. The blend is 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot. The alcohol is 13.4%."

Weinwisser: delikates Bouquet, rotbeerige Konturen, Estragon und erkalteter Hagebuttentee. Am kompakten, saftigen Gaumen mit engmaschigem Tanningerüst, feinsandigem Extrakt, mittlerem Körper. Im gebündelten Finale zeigen sich blaubeerige Konturen und feinmehlige Adstringenz, gepaart mit zarter Bitternis, kann noch zulegen."

Decanter: Such a gorgeous fragrance on the nose, so alive, so floral and expressive with milk chocolate, cherries and violets. Grippy and alive in the mouth, fun, bright, certainly full of tannins and grip with a lovely core of black bramble fruit with straight acidity. I like the very hands-off nature, it’s refined and finessed, still young and a little shy but lots of tannins are so well handled by the fruit purity and acidity. It’s a big, powerful, muscular wine but so poised, mouthwatering and charming. It has a spiced kick on the finish which adds to the complexity. 3.6pH. 80 IPT. 13% press wine. 60% of production. Reduced maceration by 5-7 days. Ageing 70% new oak"