2025, Château Laroque, SAINT-ÉMILION, Grand CruIn 2025 the wine is 99% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc Best Value Buy. The 2025 Laroque is a gorgeous, super elegant wine. Vibrant, salivating acids and beams of tannin are the first signs we are on the clay limestone plateau in Saint milion's Saint Christophe des Bardes sector. Blood orange, mint, chalk and white pepper bleed into a core of red toned fruit. Medium in body, with striking energy and tension, Laroque is positively stellar in 2025. This is

spice and dark mineral tones

The palate is medium-bodied with a sweet core of black cherry fruit laced with liquorice

The medium to full-bodied palate is chock-full of ripe

A great effort with excellent ageing potential

*** 90-92 Jasper Morris

with a dash of white pepper toward the finish

This has a fragrant bouquet of finely delineated raspberry

highly charged but with balance and a kick of slate

with tar and grilled cedar on the opening

2 vines – one week difference in harvesting – one Le Charlemagne

a little vanilla from the oak

plush tannins underpinned by juicy blackcurrants with a lean salty tang