Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2025 is a classic Pauillac that showcases the estate’s hallmark precision, balance, and ageing potential. Crafted from 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot, it offers aromas of cassis, dark berries, cedar, graphite, and subtle floral notes. The palate is structured and refined, with finely grained tannins, fresh acidity, and a pure core of dark fruit. Elegant rather than powerful, the 2025 vintage delivers remarkable clarity, mineral freshness, and a long, persistent finish. A timeless expression of Pauillac with the depth and structure to reward long-term cellaring.

The Wine Advocate | RP 95-97
Published: Apr 30, 2026

The 2025 Grand-Puy-Lacoste reveals a classic, refined bouquet of cassis, dark berries, cedar and lead pencil, with discreet floral nuances. Medium- to full-bodied, structured and precise, it’s built around a well-defined core of fruit framed by finely grained, youthful, filigreed tannins with a tensile profile. Less demonstrative than some of its peers in Pauillac, it privileges balance and typicity over sheer power, concluding with a long, elegant and mineral finish. Produced from a blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot, this is the first vintage vinified in the estate’s new gravity-fed cellar, enabling more precise parcel selection—an evolution that appears to reinforce the wine’s precision and coherence.

Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste covers some 90 hectares on one of Pauillac’s most coherent gravel rises, where Cabernet Sauvignon dominates, supported by Merlot. The Borie family directs the estate with a steady hand, favoring continuity and incremental improvement over stylistic shifts.

Viticulture remains traditional, with straightforward vineyard work and picking decisions taken parcel by parcel. Recent investment centers on a new gravity-fed winery, which handles fruit more gently and sharpens precision. It enables more precise control of extractions and a more detailed, parcel-by-parcel vinification. In the cellar, fermentations proceed without artifice, followed by élevage in barrels, with a measured proportion of new oak and regular rackings.

The range centers on the grand vin. Lacoste-Borie is not a classic second wine but derives from parcels planted on different soils, cultivated and vinified separately, yielding a distinct expression rather than a conventional second wine.

In 2025, Grand-Puy-Lacoste delivers what it set out to deliver: a classic Pauillac, structured and direct. The style holds its line but gains in detail and control thanks to the new winery. Tannins show better integration, the fruit reads more clearly, and the wine keeps its linear, age-worthy frame.

James Suckling | JS 97
Published: Apr 21, 2026

Excellent GPL, medium- to full-bodied with a great expression of dark fruit that is evenly distributed. It’s fresh and precise with grainy, integrated tannins that should only integrate more. A blend of 76% cabernet sauvignon and 24% merlot.

Jancis Robinson | JR 17
Published: Apr 14, 2026
Drink: 2032-2050

76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot. 30 hl/ha. Cask sample.
True to style. Dark-fruit and graphite nose. Lively fruit and freshness. Structured but not abrasive. Good persistence on the finish. Classic. (JL)

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