En primeur offer: Bordeaux 2025

A welcome return to form from this popular Moulis property, showcasing its traditional medium-body, sinewy tannins and savoury aromas of tobacco leaf and crushed slate. The wine built throughout the week and gained extra sweetness to the mid palate – always a good sign of things to come. Drink from 2030 to 2040. Bottles (CM34951 £120 per six) available. 12.5%

Cissac is one of our bestselling Bordeaux reds thanks to its affordability and ageworthiness. It’s a wine that’s at its best after six to eight years from vintage, and the 2025 is a brilliant example. Located just behind the intersection between Pauillac and Saint-Estèphe, Cissac is always a wine with great energy and freshness. The 2025 offers added depth and nuance with well-judged oak and distinct herbal spice notes. Drink from 2030 to 2038. Bottles (CM34671 @ £102 per six) and halves (CM34672 @ £56 per dozen) available. 12.7%

Such is the quality of the 2025 Pitray – the oldest family-owned property in Bordeaux – that we’ve decided to offer it early as part of this year’s en primeur selection. The increased depth, complexity, and class found in this wine since Nina Mitjavile (daughter of the legendary François of Tertre Rotebouef fame) arrived as winemaker is staggering. They now include all their malbec into the cuvée, giving the wine intense spice and blackberry notes, with hints of tar, bitter chocolate and bilberry. A blend of 50% merlot, 40% malbec and 10% cabernet sauvignon, the palate is full, generous and powerful, and will reward careful cellaring. Drink from 2030 to 2037. Bottles (CB7641 @ £80 per six) and halves (CB7642 @ £44 per dozen) available. 13.5%

The Wine Society is the world’s largest buyer of Beaumont, but even our unrivalled support of this member favourite doesn’t make them immune to the difficulties currently faced in Bordeaux. Due to waning demand, they’ve been forced to grub up a significant portion of the vineyards as they’re no longer financially viable. Despite the difficulties, the wine continues to show unrivalled value, with the 2025 one of the finest we’ve had the pleasure of tasting. Always perfumed and charming in youth, this vintage deserves a little extra patience, with an energetic palate offering plenty of blueberry and toasted spice notes and present yet brilliantly managed tannins. Drink from 2030 to 2038. Bottles (CM35031 @ £110 per dozen) and halves (CM35032 @ £72 per dozen) available. 13.5%

Cantemerle is often the first wine we taste en primeur as it acts as a brilliant spirit level for the vintage. Delicious from the first taste, it got better and better with each showing throughout the week. With 71% cabernet sauvignon, it’s almost opaque in the glass with a sweet and silky palate and supple, fleshy tannins. 18% merlot, 7% petit verdot and 4% cabernet franc lend notes of blackberry crumble, kirsch and freshly toasted spices that give huge pleasure and opulence to a wine that always provides outstanding value. A brilliant addition to any cellar. Drink from 2032 to 2045. Bottles (CM34831 @ £116 per six) and halves (CM34832 @£126 per dozen) available. 13%