▻ Bordeaux 2025: Part 1
In conversation with Jane Anson
Episode Summary:-
Jane Anson and Sarah Kemp are in Bordeaux tasting the 2025 vintage. In their first En Primeur podcast Jane explains how the weather conditions shaped the vintage. Sarah and Jane agree that there are many surprises, as though there was a very hot summer, and on paper it may look like the 2022 vintage, it is quite different.
There are historically low yields, the lowest since 1991. The summer was extremely dry with 15 days over 30 degrees in June. The berries are vey small, but rain fall in certain parts of Bordeaux at the end of August. “It is a weird mash-up, a concentrated ripe vintage, but with low ph”, Jane advises. There is concentration and freshness in this vintage but the low ph has led in some cases to bracing wines, especially on limestone.
Both agree there are some beautiful wines, but it is not a homogeneous vintage, and it is not even a vintage where you can go by appellation. It is singular, château by château, with factors like localised rainfall and dates of picking playing a key role in shaping the wines. What is not in doubt, is that it is a vintage which doesn’t resemble any in the past Jane and Sarah can remember, which makes for fascinating tasting.
““2025 historically low yields, the lowest since 1991” ”
En Primeur 2025: Jane and Sarah describe the vintage, which despite on paper looking like 2022, is in fact quite different in character.