Fifty years after the Judgment of Paris, an American rematch redrew the map: Oregon took the Chardonnay, Mendocino argued with Saumur, and France quietly reclaimed the Cabernet.
Cabernet Sauvignon
60 to 90 millimeters of rain fell on Bordeaux in the last week of August 2025, rewriting a vintage critics had already written off. The wines came out saline and chalky — what Cheval Blanc’s Pierre-Olivier Clouet called “2010 without the alcohol.” James Suckling places the best 2025s at the level of 2019 and 2016. The May–June 2026 campaign that releases them is the one that decides whether En Primeur survives 2024’s collapse.
A small cellar in the middle of red-wine fermentation, two open-top fermenters side by side, both filled with the same…
The ribeye arrives well-marbled and rested, and the diner who has read enough to know better than to default to…