(97-99 points) (Saint-Émilion; 75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 38 hl/ha; pH 3.28; 13.6% ABV; tasted at Le Pin with Jacques Thienpont, Diana Berrouet Garcia and Vianney Gravereaux). Divine and quite distinctive aromatically, with a little salty twang and a nutty note too wrapped around the dark berry fruits. This is very soft and delicate, the extraction clearly incredibly gentle. I love the graphite, more and more present with aeration. This evolves in the glass, becoming darker in its fruit signature and more floral too. It's incredibly lifted and aerial, staggeringly beautiful and wonderfully gracious. One of the most subtle and beautiful wines of the vintage. There's great charm and personality, and absolutely no sensation of oak (with greater use of foudres now). Fabulous. 97-99

(97-99 points) Flowers, black raspberries, mint, cherries, and crushed rocks form the perfume. The palate is creamy, rich, lush, and fruity. The fruits stand out for their textural profile, energy, freshness, and elegance, which is all there in spades. The wine finishes with chocolate-covered cherries, plums, mineral-influences and a touch of spice. The wine blends 75% Merlot with 25% Cabernet Franc, 13.6% ABV, 3.28 pH. The harvest took place, September 11 - September 19. Drink from 2030-2060. Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/wine-tasting-note/?vintage=2025&wine=L%27if

One of the absolute stars of the vintage in St-Emilion. Smells incredible with such perfumed violet fragrance and clear blackcurrant scents, really so vivid with a vibrant pink colour in the glass. Supple and juicy, clearly refined from the start with super fine tannins – gently grippy – with a lick of liquorice, wet stone and some tobacco and dark chocolate. I like the clarity and clean grip to this. Feels fresh, so St-Emilion and so limestone based with fantastic energy, a touch chalky but not dominant. Alive with enough grip and flesh to be weighty but really not fleshy or chewy, and very cool – cola, blueberries and flint. Delicious and accomplished with everything in harmony and nothing sticking out. This should shape up nicely over ageing with even a few minutes in the glass gaining in chew and texture. Harvest 11-19 September. 3.28pH. Ageing currently 50% new oak (may reduce to around 40%).

(93-95+ points) A brilliant and already expressive wine, the 2025 L'If comes from limestone and clay soils near Troplong Mondot, with fruit harvested between September 11th and 19th before anticipated rains arrived. Incredibly limestone-driven aromatics of black raspberries, chalky minerality, violets, and graphite all shine on the nose, and it's medium-bodied on the palate, with a pure, focused mouthfeel, polished fine tannins, and beautifully integrated yet high acidity. The purity, vibrancy, and sheer vividness of this is incredible.

(92-95 points) Fresh and well defined with a minty tone and lots of red, round intense fruit, very precise and juicy. It has a fine fruity body, and is intense and well defined with soft tannins, red berries and gobs of perfectly mature fruit. Very fresh, and precise and a success for the vintage.

(93-95 points) Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 L'If jumps from the glass with vivacious notes of wild blueberries, black raspberries, and lavender, giving way to hints of mint tea and dried roses. The medium-bodied palate reveals very fine-grained tannins with a crisp backbone and shimmery blue fruit, finishing long and floral. Very pretty! The blend is 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc. The alcohol is 13.6% and the pH is 3.28.

Explodes out of the glass, a wine where you can easily read the terroir, intense with oyster shell salinity, chalky tannins, lovely grip, slow and steady unrolling, olive pit, baking spices, fragrant iris and peony character. Clings on, and this is truly an expertly-handled expression of the soils, 3.3ph. 50% new oak. 3.28 pH. Harvest September 11 to 19, now in full production, 8ha, youngest vines from 2019.