The 2025 harvest… an early start on Tuesday 2 September with the Rosé
The 2025 harvest … his year, we will be producing rosé, a lovely rosé, a fresh wine that will delight your sunny lunches. We started on Tuesday 2 September, an early start for an early vintage, but one that promises to be remarkable… another year ending in 5, confirming the beliefs of many people in wine… And so much the better if it is good, because the heat and drought of the summer have seriously depleted our production capital and the harvest will be less than we would have liked. We will see at the end of the harvest, but for now, here is our outlook for the 2025 vintage by David Pernet – Sovivins Conseils (source Vitisphère article to read here) :
In the Bordeaux vineyards, the 2025 vintage ‘promises to be remarkable, generally very structured, with moderate acidity and some of the highest tannin potential in recent decades,’ summarises consultant David Pernet (Sovivins Conseils) in his reference note on the vintage entitled “The return of the “big five”! “.
Just as the buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhinoceros are the five animals that cannot be missed on an African safari, vintages ending in five are unmissable for wine lovers. And impossible to miss for a winegrower? “After the ordeal of 2024 [Editor’s note: which saw almost continuous rainfall], 2025 could be a piece of cake,‘ admits David Pernet, for whom ’apart from concerns about low potential yields due to the poor fertility of the buds inherited from 2024, all stages of the vintage took place in excellent conditions, resulting in a remarkable level of quality.”
Eat like a lion
Continuing with the Big Five metaphor, David Pernet believes that “in the 2025 red wines, the powerful yet supple leopard should take precedence over the rustic strength of the buffalo. But we must remain vigilant and attentive to the water conditions experienced by the vines. On plots that are not subject to water stress, there is a real risk of rusticity this year, particularly if the harvest is too early.”
As it stands, ‘the profile of the grapes is generating considerable enthusiasm and expectations of quality on a par with the finest vintages in five years,’ ‘, bearing in mind that ’the balance between aromatic intensity and tannic power is key to determining the profile of this “big five” and represents a real challenge for the success of this great vintage”. As for the white wines, ‘they are very rich and maintain a beautiful balance despite the very hot conditions in August. Their pH has not been affected by late rainfall and their main weakness will be their scarcity.’
The elephant in the room
A source of disappointment at the grape reception docks, yields are indeed not up to par. However, in the 2025 season, ‘excellent flowering/fruit set partially compensated for the low fertility of the shoots [due to the disastrous spring of 2014], but on drying soils (mainly gravel soils), the historically low size of the berries led to very low potential yields,’ analyses David Pernet.
2025 est « the vintage is the earliest since at least 1989. ». The agricultural engineer notes the heterogeneity of this early ripening, being « highly variable depending on the water dynamics of the vines and therefore the nature of the soil ». Thus « Cabernet Sauvignon grapes grown on drier soils ripen earlier than some neighbouring Merlot grapes grown on cooler soils. ».
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We should finish on Thursday 18 or Friday 19 September, and once everything is in, it will be up to us to work hard and pay tribute to what nature has given us. Although it has been less generous in terms of quantity than in some years, it has allowed us to produce a very fine vintage… We will talk about it again next April/May when we taste it and confirm the truth of the above statements.
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Château Siaurac is an iconic wine estate located on the edge of the famous Pomerol plateau in Néac. Its 46 hectares of contiguous land make it the largest estate in the appellation. The château dates back to the 19th century and is classified as a ‘Historic Monument’. 15 hectares of romantic, undulating grounds with century-old trees, classified as a ‘Remarkable Garden’, an orangery and an 18th-century woodland.
As noted in the 1893 edition of Féret, ‘Château Siaurac is separated from the premier grands crus of Pomerol only by a narrow strip of water called the Barbane’. In 1918, Château Siaurac flew the flag for the neighbouring appellation of Pomerol. It was after the creation of the Lalande de Pomerol appellation in December 1936 that Château Siaurac became an AOC Lalande de Pomerol wine..
The wines produced, Plaisir de Siaurac (second wine) and Château Siaurac (Grand Vin), are distributed worldwide. The main markets are the USA, Canada, England, the United Kingdom, Asia in general, particularly China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, etc., several African countries, Europe, French restaurants, wine merchants in mainland France, etc.
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