2025 Feytit-Clinet: "The insiders' Pomerol of the vintage"

'the best Feytit that I have tasted from barrel'

'[Jeremy Chasseuil's] hard work has been rewarded - this is now a rich, modern-style Pomerol with silky tannins and great polish and poise'. — Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

With neither a bar nor a boulangerie, Pomerol is a small, quiet commune. It's surrounded by vineyards, criss-crossed by a lattice of local lanes. In size, it's overshadowed by its much bigger neighbour St-Emilion, but these quiet lanes harbour some of the world's most sought-after wines.

One Pomerol property we keep coming back to is Feytit-Clinet. Jeremy Chasseuil took over in the year 2000: at the time, Feytit-Clinet was half-owned by his father and half by the city of Bordeaux, but it took a legal battle to wrest control from the third-party group managing it.

Thereafter, Jeremy had his work cut out. There was no barrel cellar at all, and the winery desperately needed modernisation. The very first thing he did was conduct soil studies, which revealed that most of the vineyard lay on deep, clay-veined gravel - great winemaking terroir. In the vineyard, he raised trellising and lowered yields. He is known for running a particularly draconian sorting table.

A quarter century later after Jeremy arrived, Feytit-Clinet is a property transformed. The cellar is now full of small tanks adapted to precision work. Jeremy works with his sons Adrien and Etienne, who like to mischievously suggest they do an even better job than their dad. We can’t say which of them was most responsible for 2025 Feytit-Clinet, but we adored the sense of balance and elegance in the wine, the silky tannins and the fruit, flower and spice character. We couldn't agree more with Neal Martin's assertion that this might be the best Feytit-Clinet he has tasted, or his call that it's the insiders' Pomerol of the vintage. /NT

Read our full vintage report here.

Offered subject to remaining unsold. Wines expected to arrive spring 2028.To place an order, click on the wines below or call 020 7638 5998