Château Clinet 2025 EP | Pomerol
80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon
Een van de weinige Pomerols met een meerderheid aan Cabernet Sauvignon in de blend, De prijs bleef even laag als in 2024, terwijl de kwaliteit in 2025 toch heel wat beter blijkt.
Vinous (Neal Martin) 96-98 P
The 2025 Clinet was the earliest picking ever, from September 4, and aged in 60% new oak plus 40% one-year-old barrels. Vintages now have a little more Cabernet Sauvignon, as a hectare of Merlot was uprooted. Now this has a delightful nose, perhaps the most elegant and refined that I have encountered at this stage: vivid red cherry, raspberry and wild strawberry scents, neatly embroidered oak, more floral in style. The palate is medium-bodied with chiselled, fine tannins, bright and tensile, exquisite focus, with a peacock's tail on the finish. Quite crystalline on the finish, this is a Clinet that I would like in my cellar. Or at the dinner table. Or in my glass.
Vinous (Antonio Galloni) 94-96 P
The 2025 Clinet is a dark, brooding wine, largely because of the significant presence of Cabernet Sauvignon—a rarity in Pomerol, but a tradition here dating back to vines that were planted in the 1930s and 1950s. Plum, blackberry, gravel, incense, licorice and scorched earth stain the palate. Harvest started on September 4, the earliest ever. Yields were 34 hectoliters per hectare. Lots saw about 30 days on the skins, on the longer side for the château. Malolactic fermentation was done in barrel. Élevage is 60% new oak and 40% once-filled new oak.
Jeb Dunnuck 96-98, Vinous (Neal Martin) 96-98, Yves Beck 94-96, Terre de Vins 96-98, Vinous (94-96), Alexandre Ma 95-96, Le Figaro 93-95, Markus Del Monego 96, Decanter 94, Revue du Vin de France 93-96, Wine Advocate (93-95)
Drink: 2032-2058