Château Feytit-Clinet 2025

Some tobacco, cedar and dark chocolate elements on the nose. There’s a sweetness from the oak with clean, ripe fruit behind so it’s a little cloying and highly charged right now with plenty of toasted elements – vanilla, chocolate – that just detract from the overall enjoyment at this point. Still, there’s good direction and persistence from start to finish. This will resolve beautifully after ageing with a silkiness to the fruit.

Violets, licorice, truffle, licorice, smoke, black cherries, and chocolate create the perfume. Polished, plush, fresh, and creamy, the wine is packed with ripe, sweet, energetic fruits, chocolate, and espresso. The finish is long, clean, supple, and packed with sweet, ripe, juicy fruits. This is among the best vintages of Feytit Clinet ever produced. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2029-2055. 95-97 Pts

Cloves, sage, dried spices, supple texture, plenty of cassis and dark bilberry fruit, clear oak influence that will soften over ageing; this has ageing potential and enjoyable fruit. Highly charged. Harvest September 3 to 12. 27 hl/ha. 65% new oak for ageing.

Right from the start, Feytit-Clinet shines with depth and subtlety. Its ability to highlight barrel aging just as much as delicate notes of redcurrant, licorice and peony speaks to its greatness. The finesse hinted at on the nose is perfectly echoed on the palate from the very first sip. Both refined and powerful, this wine is a reminder that exceptional growths can set finesse and power side by side, in equal measure. The common denominator behind its overall performance is the winemaker’s talent, diligent and attentive to the terroir. A vibrant, uplifting wine.

A deeply colored wine with moderately aromatic notes on the nose, lacking body on the palate. Blend: 87% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc. Alcohol: 14.1% - pH: 3.70. Yield: 27 hl/ha. Production: 9,000 bottles.

Deep, dark-fruited, complex, with spicy notes—cool fireplace, violet, coriander seed—pure poetry; the palate is lush, creamy and yet fresh, with sensational tannins and a crunchy fruit core. The wine shows tremendous energy and the harmony is impressive; the finish is majestically long, with a mix of dark and red berries on the back palate. The wine already impressed in 2023, and this 2025 takes it up another notch. The best Feytit-Clinet I’ve ever had the chance to taste.