The 2025 Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux sails out of the glass with notes of honey-drizzled white peaches, juicy pears, and passion fruit, plus nuances of beeswax and elderflower with a waft of allspice. The medium- to full-bodied palate delivers a wonderfully crisp backbone with a satiny texture and intense orchard and tropical fruit layers, finishing long and spicy. This is 100% Sauvignon Blanc. It has a pH of 3.14, and the alcohol is 14%. The yield was 16 hl/ha. (LPB)

Clementines, grapefruit, white pear, chamomile and elderflower on the nose. Gorgeous zesty appeal - bright and focused, upfront with a tangy freshly picked green apple core. Succulent and almost sweet with a dollop of lemon sherbet and pineapple but with such clear and crystalline acidity. Intense and concentrated, extremely rich but lifted by the acidity. Definitely has an opulence to this - it’s wide, impactful and long lasting on the finish with peach and apricot notes. No aggressive acidity, more fresh and soft fruit but with real mass. Gorgeous, juicy and just makes you smile. What a wonderful wine. A yield of 16hl/ha. 3.14pH. Harvest 18-22 August.

This is long and rich, beautifully drawn out, with hints of bitter almonds, preserved lemon, elderflower, steel, gunsmoke. Clear concentration, with the same intensity of flavour as you get in the red wines of Margaux this vintage, structured with plentiful phenolics despite lower less stirring than usual. Smallest number of bottles ever produced because low 16hl/ha yield and 45% of the crop, so just 7,000 bottles. Hold +3 years ideally, and carafe. Harvest August 18-22, picked in between two heat spikes.