(96-98 points) A brilliant, deeply hued wine, the 2025 Château Beychevelle is based on 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot, and is still resting in 70% new oak. One of the earliest harvests ever recorded at this château, with very tiny yields, it has a ripe, sexy, gorgeously textured style with ripe black cherries, graphite, spicy wood, and dried flowers on the nose. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, with a round, layered mouthfeel, velvety tannins, and a blockbuster finish. Hitting 13.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.6, this is a ripe, expressive Beychevelle that will evolve gracefully for 30 years or more. Tasted twice with consistent notes.

(96-98 points) The floral bouquet is what you initially notice; from there, your attention quickly turns to its array of red and black fruits, licorice, tobacco, mint leaves, and cedar. The palate is elegant, silky, creamy, fresh, and concentrated. It takes just a second to sense the wealth of fruit on the palate, with vibrancy, refinement, and purity. The finish continues along the same path, with layers of perfectly ripe fruit, a touch of salinity, and hints of licorice, espresso, and cocoa. Clearly, this is among the best wines in the estate's history. If you allow it a few years in the bottle before pulling a cork, it will be even better and should provide you with pleasure for two or more decades with ease. The wine is a blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot. 13.4% ABV, pH 3.6. The harvest took place from September 5 to September 20. This marks the earliest harvest vintage in the estate's history. Yields were 31 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2030-2065. Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/wine-tasting-note/?vintage=2025&wine=Chateau%20Beychevelle

(95-97 points) The 2025 Beychevelle is a very sexy wine. Plush and exuberant, the 2025 is seriously impressive right out of the gate. Blackberry, lavender, mocha, crème de cassis and a kick of French oak are all beautifully amplified in the glass. The blend is 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, with the plush richness of the Merlot very much in evidence. There's a lot of wine here. The 2025 spent three weeks on the skins, more or less the norm here, but it also includes 13% press wine, a bit higher than most years. More than anything else, the 2025 is a wine of extreme pleasure. It is an exceptional Beychevelle, one of the finest in recent memory. -By Antonio Galloni on April 2026

(95-97 points) A fairly saturated hue in the glass, and it continues in the an aromatic vein which matches the appearance, with a confident, composed and focused core of fruit on the nose, with silky dark chocolate, rose petal and violets suggested. This is immediately convincing, and the palate seems just as coherent, with a core of juicy and salted blackcurrants and blackberries, with a succulent texture and a confident wrapping of finely knit tannins. It holds up beautifully throughout, and overall this is a simply delicious Beychevelle, with a long, integrated finish of salt-washed tannins. So long too! A super Beychevelle. Tasted twice. The blend is 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, and the yield was 31 hl/ha. The fruit was picked from September 5th, the earliest start ever at Beychevelle, finishing on the 21st. The alcohol is reported to be 13.4%. 95-97/100

Harvest started 5th September – the earliest on record. Fine smooth rounded nose of juicy fruit followed by a nicely structured wine with a fine tannic backbone. The fruity layer on top promises well for the development of this vintage of Beychevelle. It will not develop into a blockbuster but rather and elegant and stylish Beychevelle.

(94-96 points)Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Beychevelle races out of the glass with vibrant notes of fresh blueberries, black currant jelly, and red currants, plus nuances of lilacs, charcoal, and iron ore. Medium-bodied, the palate shines with bright black, blue, and red berry flavors, supported by a lively backbone and fine-grained tannins, finishing on a lingering ferrous note.

Such a gorgeous fragrance on the nose, so alive, so floral and expressive with milk chocolate, cherries and violets. Grippy and alive in the mouth, fun, bright, certainly full of tannins and grip with a lovely core of black bramble fruit with straight acidity. I like the very hands-off nature, it’s refined and finessed, still young and a little shy but lots of tannins are so well handled by the fruit purity and acidity. It’s a big, powerful, muscular wine but so poised, mouthwatering and charming. It has a spiced kick on the finish which adds to the complexity. 3.6pH. 80 IPT. 13% press wine. 60% of production. Reduced maceration by 5-7 days. Ageing 70% new oak

(92-93 points) The 2025 Beychevelle reveals a toasty, oak-marked bouquet of dark wild berries, licorice and spice. Medium- to full-bodied, structured and concentrated, it’s built around an assertive tannic frame, concluding with a long, spicy, licorice-inflected finish. While the wine is marked by both concentration and oak at this stage, élevage may bring greater finesse and a more integrated, enveloping tannic profile.