2025 Château Berliquet

The 2025 Berliquet is precise, elegant and nuanced—adjectives I have not used often here, but that sum up the level of the 2025. Floral overtones, red berry fruit, mint and spice are beautifully delineated in the glass. The 2025 opens beautifully with a bit of time, showing notable breadth and layers. This is the finest Berliquet since Chanel's acquisition in 2017. Tasted two times. 
- Antonio Galloni (04/2026)

Well composed, textured and precise, with aromas of dark berries and stones. Medium-bodied with fine tannins. Driven and layered with a long, vivid finish. (04/2026)

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 Berliquet hops from the glass with vivacious notes of wild blueberries and black raspberries, opening out to a fragrant undercurrent of peonies, star anise, and wild sage with a touch of tilled loam. The medium- to full-bodied palate is bright as a penny with a crisp line and very fine-grained tannins supporting the tightly wound blue and black fruit layers, finishing with a skip in its step. The blend is 61% Merlot and 39% Cabernet Franc. The alcohol is 14% with a pH of 3.44. It will age 16–18 months mainly in French oak, 38% new, with 23% amphorae. Yields were 42 hl/ha. (04/2026)

A blend of 61% Merlot and 39% Cabernet Franc, the 2025 Berliquet is the best wine to emerge from this ascendent property yet. Bursting with aromas of sweet dark berries, licorice and violets, it's medium- to full-bodied, rich and suave, with beautifully refined tannins, lively acids and a seamless, complete profile. The estate's new winery, inaugurated with the 2023 vintage, permits harvesting block by block with greater precision. Readers who haven't been following Berliquet's progress should make a special effort to seek out the superb 2025.
- William Kelley (04/2026)