La Petite Eglise, Pomerol, 2025
Always one of the best value Pomerols, Petite Eglise 2025 is another cracker from Noémie Durantou. Refined aromas of blood orange, spices, fresh cherry, raspberries, irises and sandalwood lead to a gorgeously bright-fruited, creamy core of blueberries and blackcurrant - really lifted and detailed with notes of fine chocolate and graphite. The finale is lively and saline supported by fine, silky tannins with a snaking length.
critic reviews
The 2025 La Petite Eglise was picked 1-4 September and 12 September for the Merlot and Cabernet Franc respectively. It has a clean and pure bouquet with blackberry, briary and light red berry fruit. The palate has very malleable tannins, caressing and harmonious, with black pepper and bay leaf towards the finish and a sense of completeness. The aromatics just need to click into fifth gear, which they undoubtedly will by the time of bottling.
A lovely joyful feeling, cherry pit, sinew and spice, grilled cumin seeds, turmeric, anis, very good. 30hl/ha yield, 65% new oak. Harvest August 27 to September 12, this is the earliest harvest dates on record, and the first vintage with the Petite Eglise plot that was pulled up in 2017 and now has been replanted. Olivier Guatraut cellar master with Noémie Durantou winemaker.