期刊 / Beliefs
2025，好牌在手
Primeurs 2025
每一个年份，都是一场无声的博弈。它在日复一日的天象与气候节奏中展开，一边仰赖葡萄藤本身的生命力，一边考验酿酒人的判断。
每一年，我们都乐于为一个年份寻找定义，将它写成文字，讲述它的故事。2025年，一股乐观的气息始终推动着我们，也让我们自然地想到了“牌局”这一隐喻。
首先，是天时这副难以预判的牌。
其次，是每一次下注般的抉择——葡萄种植者必须在其中判断、取舍。
有些年份，气候会重新洗牌：高温、突如其来的雨水、被打乱的成熟节奏……但凭借细致观察与及时调整，酿酒人的精准和耐心，最终让一切有所不同。
我们选择相信的“这手好牌”，未必意味着局局取胜。它更像是一种能力：懂得面对不确定性，驯服偶然，并在已被发到手中的牌里，尽可能打出最好的结果——我们的收成。
为让这个年份变得可见，我们邀请加泰罗尼亚插画家哈维·阿兹纳雷斯*创作了一组插画。他的线条精准，带着细微幽默感，也极富构图意识，为刚刚过去的这一年赋予了鲜活形象。每一幅插画，都勾勒出一处场景、一种氛围，也讲述着2025年份在各座酒庄中的微妙叙事。
人们常说，尾数为5的年份，总会多一分灵魂。愿2025年再次印证这一点。
拉菲，最强底牌
拉菲珍宝，制胜组合
杜哈米隆，格拉夫局，全押！
乐王吉，三方博弈
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* 哈维·阿兹纳雷斯为*《纽约客》*和*《纽约时报》*等重要刊物创作插画。他也曾为韦斯·安德森电影《法兰西特派》绘制插画，其鲜明风格与导演的美学世界自然相融。
Lafite 2025, the strong suit
2025 is the last vintage in our beloved wooden vats. It arrived like that last card we were waiting for, allowing us to win the jackpot.
A wet winter, a very dry spring, a very hot summer but with two saviour rains for Pauillac on 24th June and 20th July. In mid-August, at the end of veraison, the vines were suffering but they were still green and progressing towards harvest with the calm of old, well-versed troops. Yields were modest, but the balance was already there for the great wines. On the last weekend of August, 60 mm of rain fell. Perhaps too much, but it was perfectly absorbed… and we will never know what the vintage would have been like without this final twist of fate.
The tastings, during the extended vatting period so as not to leave our old vat room, brought everyone to the same conclusion: the wine has the taste of the last of times and the best of times.
Carruades 2025, the winning combination
We have been betting on our young vines for a few years now. Well planted, they are now coming into their own earlier and often have a dose of beginners luck.
In 2025, we were right to pick their numbers on the grid: Cabernet-Sauvignon with an almost paradoxical freshness, Cabernet franc (admittedly few at this stage) that reveal their promising terroirs, and Merlot plots that are sometimes take longer to mature than the other grape varieties. Their combined strength and vigour gives us the winning formula for Carruades !
Bingo.
Duhart-Milon 2025, graves, all in !
It was right in the heart of the vineyard that Louis redesigned each plot of Duhart-Milon. He had his own recipe: adapting the direction of the rows and the density, testing rootstocks, pruning differently and adapting the plant cover according to the conditions of each plot.
In 2025, this work paid off, especially for our gravelly soils. The grapes that entered the cellars tasted of good fortune. The kind that is well managed, that happily surprises us and where we can’t wait to see what happens next. From August onwards, our white grapes, especially our Sémillon, gave us a leg up to achieve excellent ripeness.
A taste for risk? Not this year. By going all in in 2025 at Duhart, whether white or red, we are serene. We are confident.
L’ Évangile 2025, a 3 hand game!
2025 in Pomerol was one of those games where nothing is a foregone conclusion and where the heavens have more than one trick up their sleeve. It was played in three acts.
The season got off to a calm start in the spring, with just the right amount of rain for bud break and flowering. But then things got complicated. The weather turned nasty, and we went through a dry spell with rising temperatures. We hung on and kept the faith! Great games are never easy. Yes, the grapes are small and affect yields.
But the rain returned in mid-August and did us good. We harvested early, with the kind of balance we like and plenty of joyful aromas. Phew!
Rieussec 2025, the king of sémillon
In a game, there is often a king, crowned by luck—and by a little bit of talent. In 2025, at Rieussec, our king is Sémillon: it has the breadth and fruit of the greatest, while retaining a freshness that extends its expression.
The bright summer could have left traces of heat. But we began the harvest early, starting on 18th August for our dry whites. This way, the heat was kept in check and the acidity remained, helped by well-timed rains at the end of August.
In the end, it is a sunny vintage – but only just as much as needed. Long live the King.
