Château Calon Ségur, 2025
Château Calon Ségur, 2025
- 75cl
- 13.6%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc
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Château Calon Ségur stands as one of Saint-Estèphe's most storied estates, its famous heart-shaped label carrying the sentiment of an 18th-century Marquis who declared 'I make wine at Lafite and Latour, but my heart is at Calon'. This is Left Bank Bordeaux with gravitas — a wine that demands patience but rewards it handsomely.
What the critics say:
"The most firmly constructed wine of the Calon stable of course, but it still delivers the combination of finesse and concentration that is typical of the best wines in 2025. Much more graphite and slate on the texture of this main wine, this is one of the wines that really showcases the highest potential of the vintage, and it is an exceptional Calon. So layered, iris bud, cassis, crushed violet flowers, espresso and cocoa bean. A slow unroll. 100% new oak. 3.6 pH. Yield 35 hl/ha, Harvest September 4 to 20."
"Deep dark ruby garnet, opaque core, violet reflections, delicate edge brightening. Black berry fruit with a fine hint of precious wood, nuances of blackberry confit and cassis, delicate hints of spices and orange zest. Juicy, elegant, ripe dark berry fruit, ripe, firm tannins, mineral, good freshness on the finish, salty aftertaste, sure development potential."
"The 2025 Calon Ségur is a total head-turner. Aromatic and structured, the 2025 hits all the right notes. Readers will have to be patient, as the 2025 is packed with intense fruit and equally potent tannins that will need a decade to soften. This is a big, big wine. Here, too, the aromatics are so present, with lingering notes of dried herb, crushed rose petal and mint."
"Dark in color, the perfume delivers a wealth of red, purple, and white flowers from the start, then shifts to a display of red, with black pit fruits and berries. The vivid palate seals the deal with seemingly endless waves of ripe fruit, an array of spices, mint, and peppery chocolate. Long, refined, powerful, restrained, and focused, the finish seamlessly continues that theme. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. 13.6% ABV. Yields were 35 hectoliters per hectare. The harvest took place September 4 - September 20. This represents the earliest vintage in the history of the estate. The wine is aging in 100% new, French oak barrels. Drink from 2032-2065."
The vineyard sits on Saint-Estèphe's highest plateau at 18 metres elevation, with deep gravel beds over limestone and clay subsoils that provide excellent drainage whilst retaining moisture during dry spells. The cooler northern position in the Médoc creates a later-ripening microclimate that produces wines of natural freshness and longevity. These soils impart the distinctive mineral backbone and structured tannins that define both Calon Ségur and Saint-Estèphe as a whole.
Saint-Estèphe is the northernmost and most austere of the Médoc's great communes, producing wines that prioritise structure and longevity over immediate charm. The appellation's cooler climate and higher clay content create slower-maturing wines with firm tannins and pronounced minerality. Unlike the power of Pauillac or the elegance of Margaux, Saint-Estèphe specialises in wines that improve dramatically with age, often surprising even their makers with how gracefully they develop over decades.
The 2025 Bordeaux vintage emerged from one of the most demanding growing seasons in recent memory — the earliest budbreak since 1989, June temperatures second only to 2003 since records began, and an unusually early harvest beginning in August for the whites. Conditions that should have produced heavy, overripe wines. They didn't. Decanter's Georgie Hindle, who tasted close to 200 wines ahead of the formal campaign, describes "exceptional concentration, aromatic purity and a freshness that contradicts the record-breaking heat.
The early critical consensus places 2025 stylistically between the precision of 2020 and the structure of 2016, with the brightness of 2023 — a combination that suggests a very serious vintage indeed. Yields are dramatically low, the smallest crop since 1991, with production across the Gironde running around 15% below the five-year average. The quality is here. There simply isn't very much of it.
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