farrvinters ist ziemlich zufrieden mit dem Jahrgang:
2025 is an excellent but small vintage for Bordeaux. A dry, warm and sunny growing season led to very small, concentrated berries with many estates producing even lower yields than last year, and some making the least wine since 1991. In a vintage where sunshine and heat would normally lead to powerful wines with high alcohol, the balance of the wines is quite a surprise. This is in part due to August rains, as well as improved farming and winemaking techniques to cope with the heat, and simply the fact that some vines shut down through the highest spikes of heatwave in the summer. Most wines come in below 14% alcohol, and many are around 13%. The wines are concentrated and loaded with aromatics, fully ripe yet lifted by bright acidity, and though they analytically have high ripe tannin levels, they show a real ease and drinkability. This is a very good vintage with outstanding wines at the top and great wines for drinking at all price points. The balance feels similar to 2016 with softer tannin, or perhaps a blend between 2022 and 2023. They are fresh, intense and chalky with old school balance and new wave fruit.
2025 is a vintage that will sit in the top tier of recent vintages. It is not a seductive, opulent vintage like 2009, 2019 or 2022, but the poise and drinkability of these wines is not in doubt. They are less backward - and often two degrees lower in alcohol - than the 2010s. The riper tannins mean that they will start drinking much sooner, though they undoubtedly have the structure to age. The closest comparison might be 2016, a classically proportioned great year, but with more density of fruit and riper, finer structure. The benefit is that there are wines that will drink well young at lower price points, and powerful "vins de garde" that you can lay down in the cellar. There is something for everyone here, and it is clear the Bordelais are making better wines than ever, year in, year out.
Normally in Bordeaux, low quantities and much higher quality than the previous vintage would result in significant price increases. But Bordeaux pricing is seldom based just on the quality of the wines - factors such as the state of the market play an extremely important role in determining the release prices. With slow sales for young vintages, poor profitability in the Bordeaux wine trade, higher interest rates and the current nervous state of the world - both economically and politically - this is really not a time for proprietors to be bullish.
We can realistically expect very modest price increase on last year and hopefully, in some cases, none at all. With the wines at the quality level of 2010 and 2016 and at the price of 2024, this might be the vintage in which en primeur customers come out on top for a change. If you can buy a wine from 2025 at half the price of the 2010 vintage or 25% less than the 2016, then this should make for a very interesting campaign.
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Für mich steht und fällt der Kauf mit dem Anteil des Alkohols. Alles ab 14 % inkl. kommt mir nicht mehr ins Glas, 2022 war in dieser Hinsicht (für mich) schrecklich. Wenn die Weine tatsächlich teilweise nur 13 % aufweisen, werde ich wieder dabei sein. LOB gibt dem Clos Louie 2025, der scheint hier ja wohl bei Einigen recht beliebt zu sein, wenn ich das richtig mitbekommen habe, 100+ Punkte (!!!).
Auch wenn ich, verglichen mit diesem Verkäufer, i.d.R. 10 Punkte tiefer in die Kiste greife, bleibe ich hoffnungsvoll gestimmt.
Sorry dafür, da habe ich mich verlesen.