2025 Château Beychevelle

The 2025 Beychevelle is a very sexy wine. Plush and exuberant, the 2025 is seriously impressive right out of the gate. Blackberry, lavender, mocha, crème de cassis and a kick of French oak are all beautifully amplified in the glass. The blend is 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, with the plush richness of the Merlot very much in evidence. There's a lot of wine here. The 2025 spent three weeks on the skins, more or less the norm here, but it also includes 13% press wine, a bit higher than most years. More than anything else, the 2025 is a wine of extreme pleasure. It is an exceptional Beychevelle, one of the finest in recent memory. 
- Antonio Galloni (04/2026)

Spicy, with dark fruit aromas. Angular in style, with a linear profile and precise, focused tannins. It shows clarity, fresh dark fruit and balance that stands out. 
- Jacobo García Andrade (04/2026)

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Beychevelle races out of the glass with vibrant notes of fresh blueberries, black currant jelly, and red currants, plus nuances of lilacs, charcoal, and iron ore. Medium-bodied, the palate shines with bright black, blue, and red berry flavors, supported by a lively backbone and fine-grained tannins, finishing on a lingering ferrous note. The blend is 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot. The alcohol is 13.4%. (04/2026)

The 2025 Beychevelle reveals a toasty, oak-marked bouquet of dark wild berries, licorice and spice. Medium- to full-bodied, structured and concentrated, it’s built around an assertive tannic frame, concluding with a long, spicy, licorice-inflected finish. While the wine is marked by both concentration and oak at this stage, élevage may bring greater finesse and a more integrated, enveloping tannic profile.  
- Yohan Castaing (04/2026)