Château Lespault-Martillac 2025

Characteristics and tasting tips for Château Lespault-Martillac red 2025

Tasting

Nose
This wine elegantly expresses all the generosity of its vintage. The nose reveals a pure and refined aromatic palette, unfolding ripe red and black fruits, crisp and wonderfully fresh, with an intensity and precision that immediately mark the excellence of the 2025.

Palate
The texture is smooth, fleshy and deliciously indulgent, gracefully enveloping a ripe, dense and perfectly pure tannic structure. The balance is remarkable, carried by a beautiful freshness that brings tension and vitality to the whole. The long, persistent finish leaves a generous and refined aromatic imprint on the palate, reflecting the great potential of this vintage.

A Pessac-Léognan red wine, seductive with freshness and balance

The estate

A historic property located in the Pessac-Léognan appellation with irresistible charm, Château Lespault-Martillac has undergone a true qualitative renaissance. Since 2009, the management of Château Lespault-Martillac has been entrusted to Domaine de Chevalier, Grand Cru Classé de Graves, under the leadership of Olivier Bernard who, with passion and determination, has raised the property to its highest level by revealing its exceptional terroir at the gates of Bordeaux.

The vineyard

Château Lespault-Martillac is a Pessac-Léognan wine produced from a vineyard of which 8 hectares are dedicated to red wines and 1.5 hectares to white wines. Averaging 40 years of age, the vines are planted on deep gravel soils resting on clay-gravel subsoils.

The vintage

The 2025 vintage benefited from exceptional climatic conditions: a rainy winter ensuring good water reserves, a mild spring favouring an early and even flowering, followed by a hot and dry summer allowing optimal ripening of the grapes. The harvest, staggered from late August to 26 September, was carried out in excellent conditions, with satisfactory yields. The result is wines of great aromatic richness, combining freshness, complexity and elegance, in both white and red.

Vinification and ageing

Hand-picked, the grapes undergo several rigorous sortings at harvest as well as in the cellar, before and after destemming. Favouring moderate extraction, vinification in small concrete vats is accompanied by manual pump-overs and punch-downs. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrels, as does ageing for 14 months (1/3 new barrels). Alcohol content: 13% vol.

Blend

Merlot (65%)
Cabernet Sauvignon (30%)
Petit Verdot (5%).