Château Clinet 2025

Tasting Notes and Characteristics 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
Broad and velvety, the palate offers a generous, creamy texture supported by tannins of great finesse. The aromatics unfold flavours of ripe fruits, spices and delicate pastry notes. The whole stands out for its perfect balance between rich sun-soaked generosity, tension and great freshness, signing a classic, intense and profound expression.

Food and wine pairing

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

Serving and ageing

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

A Pomerol wine combining sun-soaked 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 in the Bordeaux region. Spanning approximately 11.5 hectares, this human-sized vineyard today combines traditional expertise with cutting-edge technologies. Led for over 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 thrives on the famous open, well-ventilated plateau of Pomerol, an ideal location for resisting humidity and frost. The vines grow on a mosaic of clay-gravel soils. The estate stands out for its very old vines, derived from a massal selection, with merlots aged 91 years and cabernets sauvignons aged 75 years. A high leaf surface area, reaching over 1.75 metres, promotes optimal grape concentration.

The vintage

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

Vinification and ageing

Due to the small size of the berries and their concentration, particularly gentle extractions were favoured during vinification. The ageing extends over a period of approximately 18 months in barrels, with a proportion of 60% new oak barrels and 40% one-wine barrels. Alcohol: 14% vol.

Grape varieties

80% merlot, 20% cabernet sauvignon