2025, Château de La Dauphine, FRONSAC

2025 is 70% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc

The 2025 La Dauphine is superb. Dark, ample and explosive, the 2025 races across the palate with inky fruit, tobacco, dried herbs, lavender and chocolate. This is a great La Dauphine. The Cabernet Franc is dialed up in this vintage, an approach that works so well. Clean saline notes frame the close. Tasted three times. 2030-2040.
93-95 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.

Aromatic purity on the nose, smells lively and welcoming. Clean, clear and supple, there’s an enjoyable bouncy element to the tannins and ripe fruit with cool acidity that means you get texture, flavour and brightness. Still quite calm, nothing over the top about this. Elegant and finessed as La Dauphine does so well. A very assured 2025 that will find fans.
94 Georgina Hindle, Decanter.