2025 Le Bon Pasteur
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The 2025 Le Bon Pasteur has a charming nose with pure, quite floral black cherry and blueberry fruit, perhaps more understated than I was expecting. The palate is quite tannic on the entry, with a keen line of acidity, structured and quite peppery towards the finish, which coats the mouth. Just a bit austere at the moment, hopefully this will flesh out during barrel maturation, though it needs to find its fifth gear.
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Neal Martin
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A Merlot-dominant blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc that will spend 15 months in 50% new barrels and amphora, the 2025 Château Le Bon Pasteur offers cassis, exotic cherries, baking spices, and dried flowers on the nose. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it has a pure, layered, graceful mouthfeel, ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish. Hitting 14% alcohol, it's beautifully balanced, textured, and graceful, with an already complex, undeniably delicious, sexy style that's impossible to resist. It's one of the top vintages for this château.
Perfumed already, with a velvety and chewy palate of dark berries and dark chocolate and a medium-bodied finish. Muscular for the vintage in Pomerol.
The 2025 Le Bon Pasteur is fabulous. In fact, the 2025 is one of the best editions of this wine I have tasted. Ample and rich, but not at all heavy, Le Bon Pasteur impresses with its total sense of harmony. A burst of red/purplish fruit, lavender, spice, mocha and blood orange are all fused together. The purity of the fruit is remarkable. The 2025 is an especially fine Bon Pasteur. Tasted two times.
About the producer
Famed winemaking consultant Michel Rolland is synonymous with this estate. The vines here were purchased by his grandparents and he ran the property from 1979. Although Rolland still makes the wine today, he sold the estate in 2013.