Château Calon Ségur, 2025 - Magnum
Château Calon Ségur, 2025 - Magnum
- 150cl
- 13.6%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc
- Organic
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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 55-hectare vineyard sits on the highest plateau in Saint-Estèphe, with deep gravel beds over limestone and clay subsoil. This elevation provides excellent drainage whilst the clay retains enough moisture for the vines during dry summers. The proximity to the Gironde estuary moderates temperatures, allowing for slow, even ripening that preserves freshness alongside concentration. These soils naturally favour Cabernet Sauvignon, giving Calon Ségur its distinctive mineral backbone and age-worthy structure.
Saint-Estèphe is Bordeaux's most northerly Left Bank commune, known for producing the most structured and age-worthy wines in the Médoc. The appellation's cooler climate and higher clay content result in wines with more power and less immediate charm than neighbouring Pauillac or Saint-Julien. Only five châteaux hold classified growth status here, making it the most exclusive of the major communes. The best Saint-Estèphe wines, like Calon Ségur, reward decades of patience with extraordinary complexity and longevity.
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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