2019 CHÂTEAU LE PIN Pomerol, Lea & Sandeman

CHÂTEAU LE PIN

2025 Pomerol

Grapes Merlot
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Pomerol & Lalande de Pomerol
Village Pomerol
ABV 14%

The depth and intensity give incredible energy in this Le Pin at this stage. The plum, dried flower, bark and fresh mushroom character is unique and it continues on the midpalate and finish. It’s endless and sophisticated with an ethereal nature. Transcendental in many ways. Can’t wait to try it from bottle. Two thirds the normal production. Pure merlot. Magic. Rating: 99-100 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (May 2026)


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Deep colour in the glass. Quite a dark but mineral nose with iron, stony accents, cool blackcurrant, cola, graphite, blood and violet notes. Soft and smooth straight away with a sexy, liquorice and perfumed character, gently chewy texture yet keeping that liquorice, tobacco, iron and squid ink minerality that puts much more stone than sun in the glass. Structure is there but this has freshness and coolness overall. I love the harmony, perfume and silk – dark blue fruit with a soft fleshy aspect, juicy acidity and cool flinty finish. It’s heady in a way many other wines this vintage aren’t, understated yet with the hint of Le Pin confidence, lots of spice on the finish – cigar, tobacco, dark chocolate and cedar – plus such layering of intense flavours. Really impressively constructed with unmistakable delicacy of texture but huge intensity of flavour. Ends with a cool and salty grip. I actually really quite love this. A yield of 20hl/ha. The team only picked the round and juicy grapes after 15-20mm rain at the end of August. Less than 1g berries. 3.79pH. Drinking range: 2034 - 2050 Rating: 97 Georgie Hindle - Decanter (May 2026)

The 2025 Le Pin is a wild, exotic beauty. Deeply layered spice overtones and a kiss of French oak lead into a core of vibrant dark-fleshed fruit. In this tasting, Le Pin comes across as a bit heavy and monolithic, largely because of yields that were just 20 hectoliters per hectare. I am sure those who can taste Le Pin will adore it, but personally, I prefer the greater tension and energy of its sibling, L'If, a much more contemporary wine that also costs about 1/20th the price. Expect the 2025 Le Pin to be rare (only ten barrels produced) and very pricey. The big news at Le Pin is that the estate has added a choice parcel measuring about one hectare planted with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon that formerly belonged to L'Evangile. That will increase Le Pin's planted surface area from two to three hectares (plus another 0.7 hectares that are being redeveloped). Sadly, this is the last vintage made by Guillaume Thienpont. Drinking range: 2035 - 2065 Rating: 95-97 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Apr 2026)

Picked in just two days, with hand sorting to eliminate any raisined berries, the 2025 Le Pin exhibits aromas of sweet cherries and raspberries along with hints of espresso roast, incense and pencil lead. Medium- to full-bodied, rich and layered, it's velvety, fleshy and enveloping, retaining its flamboyant personality but also displaying the unusual concentration of the vintage. Rating: 94-96 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (May 2026)

Château Le Pin

Mme Loubie had owned a dilapidated house and a few vines, just north of Catusseau, for decades, selling the produce off to go into generic Pomerol blends. Little more than basic care had been taken of the vineyard, and most of the vines were rather old, whilst expensive insecticides and herbicides had been unaffordable. When Mme Loubie died in 1978, Jacques Thienpont spent the incredible sum of one million francs on the 1ha of vineyard and a tatty old house and chai. The first vintage of Le Pin was the 1979, aged in cast-off barrels from Vieux Château Certan. From 1981, Le Pin was aged in 100% new wood. 1982 was 1982, and the lavish praise heaped on Le Pin by Robert Parker (it’s a 100 point wine) and others propelled Le Pin into the big time. The original 1ha has slowly and surely been augmented by further adjoining purchases, taking the vineyard area up to 2.7ha. It is all the classic clay soil of the Pomerol plateau, with a high iron oxide content. Le Pin is always 100% Merlot. Le Pin is one of Bordeaux’s, indeed the world’s wine, icons with a reputation only matched by Petrus in Pomerol. Production is still tiny, and demand very high.

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