Château Beaumont, Haut Médoc, 2025
Chateau Beaumont has reduced the area under vine from 100 hectares to just 65 hectares of the best terroir. We absolutely love the 2025. Owned by Suntory and Castel, who also own high flying Chateau Beychevelle, there's loads of fragrant, sour cherry fruit, really floral and juicy with good mid-palate weight, nice persistence and a touch of toasty interest. A most impressive, sophisticated claret with a lovely shape and polished tannins. Excellent.
critic reviews
The 2025 Beaumont was cropped at just 25 hl/ha. It has a very lifted and perfumed, fruity nose that oddly reminds me of a low SO2 wine, and I don't mean that negatively (noted on second and third sample bottles). There is very attractive purity. The palate is medium-bodied with fine but firm tannins, well-judged acidity and a light patina of new oak that will be absorbed with time. Very "pencil box", almost Pauillac-like on the finish. A couple of years in bottle and you will have a fine Beaumont on your hands. Lovely length on the aftertaste too! Just 12.9% alcohol.
The consistency and impressive quality of Beaumont is again in evidence, slate, cocoa bean, dark chocolate, a slate drag through the palate exactly as you want, delivering estate signature, ageing potential but above all a mouthwatering drinkabilty. Harvest 3 to 17 September, yield 27 hl/ha.