Chateau Lafleur - Les Perrieres 2025

Jane Anson: Highlights the nature of Perrières, with its expansion through the mid palate that lets out creamy raspberry and blueberry fruits with a shot of chalky tannins and crushed oyster shell. Love the hidden depths of Perrières. This is the sixth vintage, and the vines are getting a little older, able to better withstand the dry summer. 33% new oak for ageing. Harvest September 5 to 15."

Decanter: Smells ripe and fleshy with strawberry and cherry aspects, fragrant and a touch herbal also. Tangy from the get-go with pure red berry juiciness, a crystalline aspect and such grippy stony tannins. Lots of energy matched to really quite salty saline aspects. Starts off quite wide then narrows and focuses towards a long finish. Elegant but still super alive and given that lift by pronounced acidity. Ends long. Just a touch severe still for me with a citrus lemon juice aspect and a lot of tension although it gives the wine a real backbone. 3.4pH. Now designated as a Vin de France as are all the other wines in the Lafleur range."

Falstaff: Dunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, breitere Randaufhellung. Angenehme Kräuterwürze, rote Kirschen, ein Hauch von Preiselbeeren, zart nach Kumquats, floraler Touch. Saftig, elegant, finessenreich strukturiert, rote Kirschen, feine Tannine, lebendiger, trinkanimierender Stil, salziger Nachhall, sicheres Reifepotenzial."

Lisa Perrotti-Brown: Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 Les Perrières unfurls slowly, revealing a stunning perfume of kirsch, black raspberries, and wild blueberries, giving way to hints of fresh red roses, lavender, pencil lead, and wet slate. The medium-bodied palate is so, so elegant with a crisp backbone and very fine-grained tannins framing the intense, perfumed red and blue fruit flavors, finishing very long and chalky. Magic. The blend is 56% Merlot and 44% Bouchet (Cabernet Franc)."

James Suckling: Gorgeous fruit, blueberry and salt aromas with such intensity and brightness. Medium-bodied, lively and vivid. Tangy and bright, with a hint of limestone. 56% merlot and 44% cabernet franc."

Jeb Dunnuck: A blend of 56% Merlot and 44% Bouchet (Cabernet Franc), the 2025 Les Perrières has a pure limestone-inflected nose of framboise, crushed stone, violets, blue fruits, and a salty minerality. On the palate, it's gorgeously textured and medium-bodied, with a juicy salinity that makes you salivate, beautiful balance, and a great finish. It's a complex, layered, elegant, yet silky beauty."