2025 Haut Marbuzet
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The 2025 Haut-Marbuzet showed a bit of reduction on the nose, perhaps less flamboyant than in previous years, stricter yet still well defined. The palate is medium-bodied, with pliant tannins, attractive peppered black fruit, succinctly controlled, with a lightly peppered and quite sustained finish. Excellent, classy, more-ish.
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Neal Martin
James Suckling
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A solid, nicely balanced effort in the vintage, the 2025 Château Haut-Marbuzet offers ripe cassis and black raspberry notes intermixed with spicy oak and violets. Based on 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Cabernet Franc that will spend 16 to 18 months in 100% new French oak, it's medium-bodied on the palate, with fine tannins and outstanding length. I think it's clearly going to be outstanding, if not quite a bit more.
Expressive, fruity and quite generous. Loads of red berries and sweet cherries on the nose with a floral touch. Medium-bodied with fine, firm tannins. Delicious pulp character in the finish.
The 2025 Haut-Marbuzet is a wild, powerful wine, and one of the most distinctive wines in Bordeaux. Huge fruit and equally imposing tannins are the signatures. This old-school Saint-Estèphe is going to require quite a bit of patience, but it has so much to offer. Gravel, dried herbs, menthol, licorice and dried herbs meld into the huge, tannic finish. Give this time.