Chateau L'Evangile Pomerol (Minimum order: 6 bottle case) FUTURES 2025 Pre-Arrival

Château L’Evangile 2025 (Pomerol, Futures) is being rated as one of the top Pomerols of the vintage, combining impressive depth and opulence with striking freshness and precision.

Critic tasting note: (2025 vintage)

"The aromas of blackberries, black olives and hints of tobacco and dried fruit are fascinating and enticing. It’s medium- to full-bodied with creamy and polished tannins and a savory finish. Turns refined and focused after the layered fruit. Classic in character, with a caressing texture and balance. Hints of ripe fruit and freshness at the same time. 86% merlot, 13% cabernet franc and 1% cabernet sauvignon." - James Suckling (97-98/100)

"Black fruit, smoke, truffles, chocolate, plums, and Maraschino cherries fill the exotic perfume. But, here, it is the palate that owns the day. Intense and concentrated, the wine offers so much volume, width, and length that you are instantly seduced. Dark, deep, focused, and precise, there is also opulence, depth, and sensuality. The finish provides the lift, so the wine is equally fresh and velvety. This is a fabulous vintage for L'Evangile. The wine blends 66% Merlot with 13% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. 13.7% ABV. The harvest took place August 26 - September 15. The wine is aging in a combination of 40% new, French oak, 40% foudres, amphora, and used oak barrels. Yields were low at only 22 hectoliters per hectare. The Grand Vin was made from 60% of the harvest. Drink from 2030-2060." - Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider (97/100)

"Deep dark ruby garnet, opaque core, violet reflections, delicate edge brightening. Fine heart cherry fruit, a hint of fresh plums, delicate nougat, underlaid with candied orange zest. Complex, taut, tightly meshed, extract-sweet core, ripe tannins, good freshness, chocolaty touch on the finish, mineral aftertaste, sweet reverberation, powerful, storable style." - Falstaff (97/100)

Blend, structure and élevage

The 2025 Grand Vin blends 66% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon, at 13.7% alcohol. Yields were very low at about 22 hl/ha, with only 60% of the harvest selected for the Grand Vin. Aging is in 40% new French oak, 40% large foudres, 15% once‑filled barrels and 5% amphora, a mix chosen to build texture while keeping the fruit and terroir clearly defined.

Vineyard and vintage context

L’Evangile’s 22 hectares lie on the southeastern Pomerol plateau between Pétrus and Cheval Blanc, on sandy‑clay and gravel with an iron‑rich subsoil (“crasse de fer”), a terroir that naturally gives powerful yet mineral wines. The early, hot 2025 season produced small, concentrated berries, but the estate’s clay‑rich soils and well‑timed late‑summer rains preserved balance and allowed harvest from 26 August to 15 September at optimal ripeness.

Tasting profile (barrel sample)

The nose is described as exotic and layered: black fruits, plums and Maraschino cherries, with smoke, truffle, chocolate and floral notes. On the palate the wine is intense and concentrated with great volume and width, dark and deep yet focused and precise, delivering both opulence and sensuality. The finish shows real lift, so the wine feels at once fresh and velvety, with long‑lasting black‑fruit, cocoa and mineral notes.

Character and aging potential

Commentators call 2025 “a fabulous vintage for L’Evangile,” and “one of the top Pomerols of the year,” thanks to its combination of richness, detail and energy. Recommended drinking is roughly 2030–2060, with young bottles benefiting from a long decant and mature bottles needing only gentle handling to remove sediment.