2025 Puygueraud
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A juicy, pleasure-bent Francs-Côtes de Bordeaux, the 2025 Château Puygueraud is a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc from yields of 32 hectoliters per hectare, raised in 30% new barrels with a small portion in foudre. Its deep purple hue is followed by an attractive bouquet of red and blue fruits, liquid violets, and peppery herbs. On the palate, it's medium-bodied, structured, and tannic, yet it still manages to stay nicely textured and balanced. This hit 14.3% alcohol and has a pH of 3.38.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2025 Puygueraud is fabulous. It offers a captivating mix of intense red-toned fruit and brisk, salivating acids that balance its natural intensity. Blood orange, cedar, mint and sweet pipe tobacco weave through. The blend is 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, with the Franc very much in evidence in the wine's fruit profile, aromatic presence and structural feel. Superb. Tasted two times.
About the producer
The Thienpont family bought Ch. Puygueraud in 1946, running it as a farm until the 1980s when Nicolas Thienpont moved the focus to viticulture, with the first vintage in 1983. Based in the Francs Côtes de Bordeaux, the property comprises 47 hectares of vines, both red and white.