Château Clinet 2025

Characteristics and tasting notes of Château Clinet 2025

Tasting

Appearance
This wine reveals a deep, dense and particularly bright ruby colour, with an almost opaque core and purple highlights.

Nose
Highly expressive, it unveils an intense bouquet dominated by aromas of wild strawberry, morello cherry, plum, blackberry and blackcurrant.

Palate
Generous and velvety, the palate offers a rich and creamy texture supported by tannins of great finesse. The aromatics unfold flavours of perfectly ripe fruit, spices and delicate pastry notes. The whole is distinguished by a perfect balance between beautiful sun-kissed richness, tension and great freshness, signing a classic, intense and profound expression.

Food and wine pairings

This great red wine will pair wonderfully with grilled or roasted red meats, such as a rib of beef or a rack of lamb. It will also enhance game dishes such as venison stew, wild boar ragout, or characterful poultry like pigeon or duck, especially when accompanied by mushrooms, robust reductions or truffles.

Serving and cellaring

Endowed with a solid structure and lovely balance, this vintage has excellent ageing potential and can be enjoyed until around 2045.

A Pomerol wine blending sun-kissed richness and classic elegance

The estate

Established in the 16th century on the heights of Pomerol and founded in its modern form in 1883, Château Clinet is a historic and essential property of the Bordeaux region. Spanning approximately 11.5 hectares, this human-sized vineyard now combines traditional know-how with cutting-edge technology. Led for more than twenty years by Ronan Laborde, who represents the owning family, the estate has established itself as a benchmark name on the Right Bank. The exacting standards applied at every stage make it possible to produce wines of great precision, faithful to the identity of their prestigious terroir.

The vineyard

Covering 10.2 hectares in production, the vineyard flourishes on the famous open and well-ventilated plateau of Pomerol, an ideal location to resist humidity and frost. The vines are rooted in a mosaic of clay and gravel soils. The estate stands out for its very old vines, derived from a massal selection, with Merlot vines aged 91 years and Cabernet Sauvignon vines aged 75 years. A high foliage surface, reaching more than 1.75 metres, promotes optimal concentration in the grapes.

The vintage

The year was marked by a particularly hot and dry season, with rainfall below 700 mm compared to the usual average of 900 mm. After a mild and dry winter followed by a wet early spring, a warm May allowed for an early flowering under ideal conditions. Summer proved extremely hot and arid, producing very small berries and a very low yield. The harvest thus began with record-breaking earliness, running from 4 to 17 September.

Winemaking and ageing

Due to the small size of the berries and their concentration, particularly gentle extractions were favoured during vinification. Ageing extends over a period of approximately 18 months in barrels, with a proportion of 60% new oak barrels and 40% one-wine barrels.

Grape varieties

80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon