Wine Review: Chateau Coutet Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2025 – En- Primeur Sample

During my recent trip to Bordeaux I visited an estate I previously didn’t know very much about, Chateau Coutet, a Saint Emilion Grand Cru with vineyards on the chalk hillsides near Chateau Angelus. The estate has a real sense of its family-owned heritage and an approach as custodians of their land which is seen in the organic approaches they adopt.

The estate here,It’s been in the, the hands of the same family, the David Beaulieu family for over 400 years now.

A fantastic site, the, soils here are predominantly limestone on the plateau at the top with a clay slope, and then more sandy soils below. There are 12 hectares of vines and they’re roughly in three similar sized portions, and these are combined

Another point about the estate here is that they have a very old selection of vines. So not only are the vines themselves old, there’s an average vine age here of, I believe, about 50 years going into this particular wine. But also they’re using massale selection, so generation after generation have been selecting and refining the same stock. A reflection of this is the fact that when they’re talking about their Cabernet Franc, they actually use its old traditional name, Bouchet. and they also using a very old selection of Merlot.

So there’s a wonderful long history at the estate here.
The estate is entirely farmed organically, initially simply because that was the way they’d always run things, they had never felt the need to purchase agrichemicals. Today the estate has organic certification, which they earned in 2012, this is granted by Qualisud, who are one of the certification bodies here in France.

To read my tasting note and to find out more about this wine, its release, its pricing and where to purchase it follow this link to the Wine-Searcher website: https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/coutet+st+emilion+grand+cru+bordeaux+france/2025?referring_site=DCA

▶️ CHAPTERS:
0:00 Chateau Coutet Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2025 wine label
0:17 Blend
0:27 Background and history of the estate
0:37 Soil types
0:47 Size of the estate
0:57 Effect of limestone soils on acidity
1:07 Old vines – average age 50 years
1:20 Massale selection of very old vine stocks
1:37 Organic Viticulture
1:47 Certified organic since 2012 by Qualisud
1:57 2025 vintage in Saint Emilion
2:09 TASTING – Appearance
2:19 WINEMAKING – gentle handling, hand picked
2:29 Pressed in an antique basket press
2:44 Ageing in 400 ltr barrels
3.03 Tasting – appearance
3:25 Aromas
3:53 Palate
5:02 Ability to age
5:27 Thanks, closing remarks and sign-off
5:48 Link to Wine-Searcher for availability and pricing
6:03 Coutet’s distribution is quite small so Wine-Searcher Pro is invaluable in helping you find it

▶️Follow this link to watch a playlist of tastings of wines from Saint Emilion: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVa2LhpxQpevJE3wDxyf_QddeeXlj00O3

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