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Our Bordeaux 2025 En Primeur report is ready, and this is a vintage worth talking about!

Jeb takes an in-depth, analytical look at this vintage; a singular, good-to-great year, concentrated, fresh, and structurally unlike anything we've seen in recent memory, drawing comparisons to a modern-day 1961. The wines are brilliant at their best, the value story beyond the headline names is strong, and the pricing debate is very much alive. Plus, an honest critical look at 2025 pricing and a clear framework for when buying En Primeur actually makes sense in this market.

Bordeaux 2025 En Primeur: A Modern 1961
"1961 is perhaps the closest match from a growing season standpoint, with the structural facts lining up point for point. The difference between the two vintages is six decades of viticultural and winemaking evolution. In essence, you can think of 2025 as 1961 expressed through modern Bordeaux, and that translation is the defining story of the vintage...
The headline surprise is that a hot, drought-defined growing season produced wines this fresh, with this little alcoholic weight. The mechanism is partly atmospheric, driven by cool nights and the late-August rain, and partly physiological: under sustained heat stress, vines shut down, and the fact that few estates will state this plainly does not change what the analytical numbers show." - Jeb Dunnuck

https://jebdunnuck.com/2026/05/bordeaux-2025-en-primeur-a-modern-1961/