Chateau d´Issan 2025

James Suckling: A tight and juicy red with blackberry, cherry, plum and spice aromas and flavors. It’s medium-bodied with a creamy texture and a crunchy finish. Refined for the vintage, with plenty of character and length."

The Wine Cellar Insider: Black currants, cedar, tobacco, flowers, cherries, licorice, smoke, and cigar wrappers define the aromatic profile. Medium-bodied, lifted, sweet, vibrant, and elegant, the wine offers polish, finesse, refinement, and beautiful textures. The fruit is fresh, clean, and pure. The energy in the finish, with its layers of lush, polished fruit that stick with you, expanding and building in intensity, hits the spot.. The wine is made from a blend of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, 2% Malbec, and 2% Petit Verdot. 13.73% ABV. Picking took place September 11 - September 23. Yields were 30 hectoliters per hectare. It is important to note that 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Cruse family as owners of d'Issan. Drink from 2030-2060."

Jane Anson: Vivid plum colours, as is so often the case in this vintage, and although this is a little less luscious right now than the Blason, it is packed with promise, and the austerity of a wine that is constructed with a future in mind. Rose buds, cassis, damson are fairly discreet at first, and then unroll in layers with slate, woodsmoke and cold ash. 3.63pH. Harvest September 11 to 23. 50% new oak."

Decanter: Violets and iris notes on the nose. Supple and succulent with a drop of sweet strawberries balanced against quite fresh blackcurrants, liquorice and cola. I love the texture - streamlined, focused, detailed, so smooth and sophisticated. Maybe a more dark profile than recent vintages but feels so well constructed with a firm frame and cool drive from start to finish. It has layers, this isn’t lacking in any power or muscle but it doesn’t have any heaviness or chew and in that respect it gives a lot of wine without much weight at all. Grippy, fun, interesting, captivating and so easy to drink. Potential upscore in bottle. 2% Malbec and 2% Cabernet Franc complete the blend. 3.63pH. A yield of 29hl/ha."

Jeb Dunnuck: Cassis, black cherries, smoky tobacco, graphite, and a chalky minerality all shine from the 2025 Château D'Issan, a blend of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, 2% Malbec, and 2% Petit Verdot that's being raised in 50% new barriques with the balance in once-used barrels. Reminding me slightly of the 2016 with its balance and elegance, it's medium to full-bodied on the palate, with a pure, graceful mouthfeel, fine tannins, and outstanding length. It builds beautifully with time in the glass, and checking in at 13.73% alcohol with a pH of 3.63, this is going to be an incredibly satisfying, classic, complex Margaux that exudes class and elegance."

Falstaff: Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Floral unterlegtes Cassis, schwarze Kirschen, ein Hauch von Cassis, zarte Nuancen von Edelholz, kandierte Limettenzesten. Komplex, elegant, rote Beerenfrucht, frisch strukturiert, reife Tannine, mineralisch, zarte Extraktsüße, gute Länge, sicheres Entwicklungspotenzial."

Lisa Perrotti-Brown: Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 d'Issan marches out with intense notes of black and red currants and wild blueberries, followed by suggestions of rose bud tea and tilled soil with a touch of graphite. The medium-bodied palate is lively and tightly wound with energetic black and red fruit and firm, grainy tannins, finishing with great persistence. The blend is 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, and 6% Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot. The alcohol is 13.73%."

Vinum: Räucherspeck und Veilchen über satter Johannisbeerfrucht; kompakter, dichter Gaumenauftakt, gut strukturiert, markante Gerbstoffe die von den Trauben und dem Holz stammen, der Wein hat Rasse, wird am mittleren Gaumen fokussierter, gradliniger, hallt lange nach, endet würzig und rotfruchtig. Ein gelungener Château d'Issan mit guten Reserven."