Château Giscours, 2025
Château Giscours, 2025
- 75cl
- 14%
- Red Still
- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
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Château Giscours sits in the heart of Margaux, where elegance meets power on gravelly soils that have been making wine since the 14th century. This third growth estate produces Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant blends that capture Margaux's famous perfume whilst adding their own muscular backbone.
What the critics say:
" Such a balanced and harmonious red with control, texture and length. It has aromas of red berries, cedar, pebbles and baking spices. Medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins. Velvety and attractive, with a long, flavorful, precise finish. A blend of 64% cabernet sauvignon, 31% merlot and 5% cabernet franc."
"The 2025 Giscours is another magnificent wine for a chateau that has made giant steps in the last handful of years. Plush and succulent in the glass, with silky, exceptionally polished tannins and stunning mid-palate richness, the Giscours is pure and total sensuality. Dark red-toned fruit, pomegranate, spice, new leather, incense and dried flowers all race across the palate. The purity of the flavors is just remarkable. Tasted two times."
The 80-hectare vineyard sits on classic Margaux terroir: deep gravel beds over clay and limestone subsoil that provide excellent drainage whilst retaining enough moisture for the vines. The Garonne river's proximity moderates temperatures, whilst the gravelly topsoil reflects heat back to the vines, aiding ripening. This combination of drainage and heat retention allows Cabernet Sauvignon to ripen fully whilst maintaining freshness, creating wines with both structure and elegance.
Margaux is the most southerly of the Médoc's great communes and often considered the most elegant, producing wines that combine power with finesse. The appellation's gravelly soils favour Cabernet Sauvignon, which must comprise the majority of most blends, supported by Merlot and smaller amounts of Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Unlike Pauillac's muscle or Saint-Julien's harmony, Margaux wines are prized for their perfume, silky tannins, and ability to be both structured and graceful. The appellation includes 21 classified growths, more than any other Médoc commune.
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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