Top ratings for our 2025 wines from the Moulis-en-Médoc AOC in *La Revue du Vin de France*, June 2026!  

Château Anthonic 2025, AOC Moulis-en-Médoc, received the following review:

"This wine confirms its excellent momentum with a particularly accomplished 2025 vintage.
The fruit is clearly defined, carried by a vibrant and precise expression. 
On the palate, it combines elegance and freshness, with a balanced and harmonious body. 
The finish, lively and luminous, stands out for its energy and brilliance.
92-93"

And our Château Lestage-Darquier Grand Poujeaux, AOC Moulis-en-Médoc:

"Ambitious and particularly interesting, this wine stands out for its straightforward, 
dense, and perfectly structured body, supported by beautiful vitality.
The aging, finely integrated, complements the wine perfectly without masking the fruit.
The palate gains in intensity and depth as the tasting progresses, 
leading to a crisp, invigorating, and elegant finish
that precisely affirms its character and potential.
93-94"

This is a recognition of our organic wines and the work of our team. Thank you to everyone.

Adélie came to visit us to learn about organic viticulture and agroforestry. https://youtube.com/shorts/pE09LNV9n-A?si=gHfJQ-e1MX3KURlH

Here, Jean-Baptiste is explaining to her the process of “relevage,” or the second time the vine shoots are trained up the trellis. 

This task is essential to ensure the vines are properly trained.
It allows tractors to till the soil without breaking the branches. 

It’s actually quite enjoyable work, but it has to be done quickly because the vines are growing like crazy this year!

What a great session this morning! https://youtube.com/shorts/B6J1HdOub-o?si=9F6ltwQSdt266oAF
Adélie and Jean-Baptiste had just finished staking the vines and tying up the young Petit Verdot plants. 

Then Jean-Yves arrived to hill up the soil around the vine roots. 

And right after that, Antonio showed up to mow the grass between the rows. 

Kudos to the team for their coordination!

Lucie, our cellar master, explains the racking process for our 2025 vintage wines.https://youtube.com/shorts/UI-9gzVj5z8?si=pwX-Tg9taFd4Lpzv

This is an important process for clarifying the wines and a crucial step in their aging. 

It’s a task that keeps the cellar team busy for three weeks!

Our Blanc dans les arbres (“white among the trees,”) made from the Bouysselet grape variety, is admired by everyone who has tasted it. 

Yves Beck was the first journalist to confirm its exceptional character: 

“What purity in this bouquet! 
It has exceptional definition, combining a wealth of details through floral nuances and notes of white-fleshed fruits (apples, pears, white peaches), complemented by hints of blond tobacco and anise with a touch of flint in the background. 
On the palate, the wine displays a smooth yet lively character. 
It combines fullness and power while maintaining a serene profile, thus avoiding exuberance. 
It isn’t meant to be that way—there’s no need to do more given its incredible potential. 
A savory, mouth-watering, and persistent wine driven by a prominent and energizing acidity! Drink now–2035  95/100”

Bouysselet is an ancient grape variety rediscovered in Fronton in 2010. 
We are pleased to introduce it to the Bordeaux region as a “Vin de France,” since it does not belong to any AOC in our region.

Thank you, Yves Beck, for this first enthusiastic review of our “rosé in the trees”: 

“Superb fruity intensity highlighted by notes of raspberries and citrus! 
Juicy yet creamy on the palate, the wine is lively, briny, elegant, and, of course, well-balanced! 
Its mouthwatering and thirst-quenching qualities make it clear right away what to do! Open the hatches (unless you’re in a submarine!) 
Cheers and drink up. Now – 2028  90/100”

With our “Dans les Arbres” red, rosé, and white wines, we aim to break the mold. 

 These are organic wines from our agroforestry vineyards—hence the name “Dans les Arbres.” 

 These wines allow us to explore new paths and express creativity free from AOC constraints, which is why we’ve chosen the “Vins de France” designation.

 The labels were designed by our in-house artist, Pierre-Louis Cordonnier, known as Picor. 
These labels evoke the biodiversity that is so abundant at Anthonic. 
The label for the “Dans les Arbres” rosé features the plover, a common sight on the beaches of the Médoc.

We are delighted with the initial press reviews for our “Dans les Arbres” wines.

Here is Yves Beck’s review of *Le Rouge dans les Arbres 2025*, a pure Merlot with no added sulfites: 

“A beautiful, fruity expression on the nose for this cuvée, vinified and aged without added sulfites and using sterile filtration. 
Delightful on the palate, the wine stands out for its airy quality and roundness. 
It is fresh, harmonious, and driven by velvety tannins and a mouth-watering freshness.  2027–2033  89/100”

With our “Dans les Arbres” red, rosé, and white wines, we aim to break the mold. 

These are organic wines from our agroforestry vineyards—hence the name “Dans les Arbres.” 

These wines allow us to explore new paths and express creativity free from AOC constraints, which is why we’ve chosen the “Vins de France” designation.

 The labels were designed by our in-house artist, Pierre-Louis Cordonnier, known as Picor. These labels evoke the biodiversity that is so abundant at Anthonic. The label for the “Dans les Arbres” red features the hoopoe.

Lucie & Pierre-Louis are lowering the wires, and it’s not easy when the row is long!! https://youtube.com/shorts/Fb2bsAR2iy8?si=e2l3mz0WBuqkYnev

Now that the tractor has cleared the grass from under the vines, it’s time to lay the wires. 

This step prepares for the next one: raising the wires. We’ll raise the wires once the vines have grown so that they keep the vines trained. 

The sweeping motions you see in the air are used to loosen the wires high up—that is, far from the young, fragile shoots that mustn’t be damaged under any circumstances. 

Jean-Yves, our vineyard technical manager, explains how to brighten up life by planting flowers. https://youtube.com/shorts/pZoCOcT4nZk?si=0ZLEUvSbSNUxkrGv

Since last year, he has been devoting his time and energy to planting flowers along the path leading to the estate, Château Anthonic. 

Jean-Yves believes that beauty is important in life. 
And he’s absolutely right!

So listen to his planting tips

Do you realize that your glass of wine begins right here?

In these buds, as slender as they are fragile. 
In these leaves, as delicate as roses.
In these clusters, brimming with so many promises yet to be fulfilled.

How can one not tremble in the face of such vulnerability?
How can we not feel guilty when, through clumsiness while working in the vineyard, we’ve cut down, injured, or simply bumped into one of them?

Before the grapes are harvested, there’s still a long way to go before the wine reaches our lips… 

But here’s to the 2026 vintage, which is just around the corner!

Photos: Nathalie Coipel

Jean-Baptiste explains how to care for young grapevines. 
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ty4zy5w59cM?si=yuqMh2xAYtwTsPc-
They are very small and fragile.
Yet they represent the future of the vineyard. 

It is therefore important to clear the area around them so they aren’t smothered by weeds that escaped the plow.

These young vines are also highly vulnerable to snails, which feast on their buds. 

Removing the weeds means removing the snails hiding among them.

A vineyard is like a huge vegetable garden where you have to take care of every single plant!
https://youtube.com/shorts/Jsq0RHLZVjA?si=6afvpJdyZ4JXQzAB
Pri checks each vine one by one to make sure it is securely tied to the trellis wire. 

If the ties from previous years have come loose,
the vine must be re-tied. 

This step is called tying. 

It takes place right now, after pruning and bending the vines. 

Like bending, tying is important for the quality of the trellising, which allows for better ripening of the grapes and easier passage of tractors. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/h7IjovBZxvQ?si=ust4N5An_UzID-bT

https://youtube.com/shorts/3PvHYADsxP4?si=0YBDsr03ZQ-uyV2D Jean-Baptiste explains the importance of bending the vines, a key step in training the vineyard.

By bending the vines and securing them to the wires, the grapes can spread out, allowing them to ripen more fully.

Trellising also helps to manage the vines and leaves space for tractors to pass through. 

Bending takes place after pruning. 

We’re right in the middle of it and we’re working quickly because the buds are growing and becoming more fragile. 
The goal is to bend the vines without causing them to fall…

https://youtube.com/shorts/wYRtiQviQmA?si=M1L7KZE4ZKHV0Os6

Lucie vous explique la taille des vignes pas à pas.

Nous sommes en effet dans les derniers jours de cette étape fondamentale pour la structure du vignoble et la qualité de la récolte à venir. 

Here are the labels for our new vintages!

3 wines, 3 colors 
“Dans les arbres” (In the Trees), a reference to the agroforestry practices that characterize our vineyard 

The birds, so numerous at Anthonic, inspired Pierre-Louis Cordonnier, our Picor artist, who designed these labels. 

For the “Rosé dans les arbres,” our very pale, delicate, and elegant rosé, he chose the plover, a small bird found on the beaches of the Médoc, where this wine is so enjoyable to drink, for example.

Here are the labels for our new vintages!

3 wines, 3 colors 
“Dans les arbres” (In the Trees), a reference to the agroforestry practices that define our vineyard 

The birds, so numerous in Anthonic, inspired Pierre-Louis Cordonnier, our Picor artist, who designed these labels. 

For “Blanc dans les arbres,” our white wine made from the Bouysselet grape variety—which shows such promise on our terroirs—he chose to depict the white harrier. 

This is a small bird of prey that has joined the long list of raptors present in Anthonic since the spring of 2024—precisely the time when we grafted a plot of Merlot with the Bouysselet grape variety.

To meet evolving consumer expectations, our new wine range comes in three varieties: 

    “Le blanc dans les arbres,”
made from the rare Bouysselet grape variety, which we are introducing for the first time in the Bordeaux region and which is proving extremely promising on our clay-limestone soils; 

    “Le rouge dans les arbres,”
a fresh, fruity, and delicious red, aged in amphorae; 

    “Le rosé dans les arbres,”
an idea conceived by a member of our team when he saw the fresco adorning the fermentation room. Francesco suggested we capture one of the shades of pink from the fresco in a wine. The result is a very refined, delicious, and indulgent rosé.

Château Anthonic is indeed characterized by numerous works of art in its buildings, as Pierre-Louis Cordonnier, one of the estate’s sons, is a Médoc artist known by the name Picor. 

Picor designs all the labels for our estate’s wines. 

He depicts birds because they are his passion and because there have always been many at Anthonic—now more than ever, thanks to the biodiversity fostered by agroforestry. 

    For “Le rouge dans les arbres,” Picor chose to depict a hoopoe, a long-time resident of Anthonic;

    For “Le blanc dans les arbres,” it is a white-tailed eagle, a small bird of prey that appeared in our vineyards two years ago, just as we were beginning the grafting of the Bouysselet;

    A plover was illustrated as a nod to the beaches of the Médoc for “Le rosé dans les arbres.” 

The name “dans les arbres” refers to agroforestry (trees and hedges in the vineyards), an agroecological model that characterizes our vineyard, which is also managed using organic viticulture.

These three new, innovative, and creative wines are marketed as Vin de France.

 https://youtube.com/shorts/-_kTNZZXMWU?si=03YmdgP4eOs5HsKV

Just look at all the nests in the hedgerows (6 km) that crisscross our vineyard!

Agroforestry isn’t just beautiful. 
It’s good for biodiversity!

The birds, so numerous at Anthonic, find food, shelter, and a safe haven for their young here. 

The hedgerows also serve as ecological habitats and passageways (from one wooded area to another) for many other animals (reptiles, small rodents, insects, etc.).

It certainly means extra work (pruning and maintaining the hedgerows), but we have no regrets!

Photos: Nathalie Coipel

Hedges + Vineyards = The Joys of Agroforestry 
6 km of hedges in our vineyards—great for biodiversity! https://youtube.com/shorts/gNLHDuvF6L4?si=zt-ZAcoVvKD6V9zJ

Because hedgerows are ecological havens (providing food and breeding grounds)
and form sheltered passageways between wooded areas. 

They are therefore highly appreciated by animals of all kinds, 
including this pheasant cock, likely a survivor of the early hunting season releases, who found shelter there…

Jean-Baptiste, his sons Théophile & Pierre-Louis, and the entire team 
at Châteaux Anthonic and Lestage-Darquier Grand Poujeaux 
wish you a 2026
filled with smiles and fine wines!

We will continue to devote our energy 
to our wonderful wine-growing and environmental project (agroforestry)
to offer you fine wines 
for moments of sharing and laughter with your loved ones. 

Mural by artists @bellodesorden and @picor_art

Sofia, Jean-Baptiste, and Francesco are delighted to present their “baby” wines: 

“Le rouge dans les arbres” (Red in the Trees), created by Sofia, our cellar master, is a pure Merlot made using natural methods, vinified with indigenous yeasts and no added sulfites. 

“Le blanc dans les arbres” (The white in the trees), an idea from Jean-Baptiste. Produced with the Bouysselet grape variety, a rare variety that we are introducing to the Bordeaux region. 

“Le rosé dans les arbres” (The rosé in the trees), an initiative by Francesco, who came up with the idea when he saw the roses in the “Athena” fresco created in the vat room by artists @lileeimperator and @picor_art. 

These are three experimental vintages, still in very limited quantities. 

This work by Antonio and Toumany is fundamental: preparing the holes for planting the vines at Château Lestage-Darquier Grand Poujeaux. https://youtube.com/shorts/wSFcYQ28p9s?si=uRrdrVJwJLaKBrFm

Where there are gaps in the vineyard, new vines will need to be planted in the spring. This is called “replanting.” 

For now, Antonio guides the tractor with one hand and the auger that drills the holes with the other. 

Toumany mixes organic fertilizer with compost to enrich the soil where the vines will be planted. 

Antonio gives another twist of the auger to push the mixture into the hole. Toumany plants the stake for the future vine. 

Under the greedy gaze of the happy earthworms that the holes bring to the surface????...

This is essential work for the maintenance of the vineyard.

Photo & Video: Nathalie Coipel

Francesco and Pierre-Louis installed the new barrels to hold the 2025 vintage. https://youtube.com/shorts/1U591A16NX8?si=O9b8_zplRhbU2z8V

Aligning the barrels is precision work because with three layers of 225-liter barrels, it is essential that they do not roll onto the floor!

Photo & Video: Nathalie Coipel

https://youtube.com/shorts/fK3kzkt98XY?si=i221A7QgQFjwu3wr

Vidéo & Photo: Nathalie Coipel

Château Anthonic today!

View of some of our agroforestry plots (trees, hedges, and ground cover among the vines).

Agroforestry in autumn is so beautiful!

Photo: Nathalie Coipel

Watch this short video summarizing the atmosphere in the cellar for our amazing team (Sofia, Franceso, and Pierre-Louis)! https://youtube.com/shorts/X6LGKJVvnHI?si=CHc-FjLpjBuUkzAc

We are fortunate to have a vat room decorated with frescoes by artists @lileeimperator and @picor_art.

In the barrel and amphora cellar, the same @picor_art painted a fresco with artist @bellodesorden.

An artistic environment that gives birth to exceptional wines. 

It's worth noting that the artist Picor is none other than Pierre-Louis, who has been involved in our winemaking for several years.

Photos: Nathalie Coipel

Our “white wine in the trees” is aged on lees, which Francesco stirs every two days. 

Bâtonnage involves stirring the fine lees suspended in the wine. See the video https://youtube.com/shorts/cR_f63Z_2Ik?si=tVVmAozP2j7EtkqP

These lees consist of dead yeast and other solid particles from fermentation.

Stirring improves the smoothness of the wine and increases its aromatic complexity, which we feel is ideal for our wine made from the Bouysselet grape variety, a grape variety used to make great white wines. 

Video : Nathalie Coipel

Here is Pierre-Louis cleaning the tanks that have been drained, as there is always a little dried skin left at the bottom.

The draining and pressing of the last tanks will take place next week.

Photo: Nathalie Coipel

Francesco, Pierre-Louis, and Sofia at the pressing stage, an important step in winemaking. (details in video: https://youtube.com/shorts/GJeZn5hWJNM?si=csKVXVD5q-JaGhyo  )

Once the vats have been drained to obtain the “free-run wine,” the pomace remaining at the bottom of the vats still has a lot to offer us.

This mixture of skins saturated with must is pressed to obtain the “press wine” (see video).

We then adopt the method of our oenologist Eric Boissenot. 
This means that we store the press wines in barrels, i.e. small containers, carefully separating the presses from each vat and, for each vat, the press wine from the first pressing and that from the second pressing (more concentrated).

This leaves us with a huge number of different batches.

These highly concentrated “press wines” will be blended with the “free-run wines” to create our 2025 wine. 

Having many batches of “press wine” will therefore allow us to work with great finesse in creating the blends.

Vidéo: Nathalie Coipel

The harvest is over, but the winemaking isn't!

Tasting with our oenologist Emilio de Longhi of all our batches: reds, reds with indigenous yeasts, whites, and rosés. 
A beautiful range.

First impressions of the 2025 vintage?

Low yields but very promising quality.

Concentration, acidity, intense colors, and very lively, complex aromas...
Nature and the team have done a great job!

Thank you to everyone, in the vineyard and in the cellar!
Thanks to you, the harvest was carried out in a cheerful and efficient manner (everything was completed in 11 days).

Photo: Nathalie Coipel

This is the story of a rosé inspired by a mural.

Francesco has been working with us for a few weeks now, in our wine cellar adorned with a mural by artists Picor and Lilee Imperator. 

On Monday, he suggested we make rosé, pointing to the shade of pink he wanted on the mural.

“Ok Francesco!”

Francesco has made some very good rosés at Frescobaldi in Tuscany, and we have complete confidence in him.

Today, we have the first images of the grape juice for the rosé. 

It was put into new wooden barrels this morning, where it will begin its alcoholic fermentation.

We are delighted with this new project. 

Between two harvests, our artist Picor is already thinking about the future label for the rosé.

Photo: Nathalie Coipel

How is white wine made?

All the steps are shown in this video about Château Anthonic's first white wine!
https://youtube.com/shorts/cgkFmyeRVak?si=WrIxmq8D6orj5O8L
Produced with Bouysselet grapes harvested this weekend.
This wine will be called “blanc dans les arbres” (white in the trees) in reference to our agroforestry vineyards (trees in the vineyards). 
A wonderful adventure begins!

Video: Nathalie Coipel

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_Us7ZXgk-E?si=HOQbJhlOxCElMuon

Vidéo: Nathalie Coipel

This is Sofia, our cellar master, racking an amphora where she is experimenting with alcoholic fermentation using indigenous yeasts. 

The idea is to allow alcoholic fermentation to take place without adding any external yeasts, using only those naturally present on the grapes.

Two amphorae have already started spontaneous fermentation. 

The idea is to then use this must, rich in indigenous yeasts, to inoculate a large vat. 
The other vats will be vinified with controlled yeasts, as we usually do. 

We will be able to compare the two options and see whether relying on indigenous yeasts is a technically reliable and organoleptically interesting choice. 

Of course, amphorae are not equipped with temperature control like tanks.
So we covered them with old cloths to keep the inside warm.

The daily pumping over (aeration) of the fermenting must cannot be done with pumps either, but only by punching down, which is what Sofia is doing in the photo. 

Admire the fresco by artists Picor and Mosh.

Photo: Nathalie Coipel

Here is our fantastic cellar team, ready to take care of YOUR 2025 wines!

Sofia, our cellar master, is always calm and organized. 
She is passionate about this year's new challenges, which we will tell you more about later.

On the right is Francesco, who has come to help us out until Christmas. He has already made a lot of wine, notably in New Zealand and in Tuscany at Frescobaldi. 
His experience with white wines will be useful for our “white in the trees.” 

On the left, Pierre-Louis, our artist @picor_art who painted the fresco in the photo, is starting his third consecutive wine-making season. 
His mechanical skills are also invaluable, for example in maintaining the grape sorting machines. 

A lot of work but a lot of good humor—it's the ideal combination! Thank you. 

Photo: Nathalie Coipel

Florian Laplanche, a member of our team, won the Médoc marathon today!!!

And our Château Anthonic team came first in the château rankings!!

Rose-Marie Stourm also came first (MO category) for Château Anthonic. 

Théophile also took part and achieved a very good time.

The Médoc Marathon is run through the vineyards in costume. With the theme “the sea,” Théophile was  Poseidon. 

Florian, the winner, came in second last year for Château Villegeorges, which did not participate this year. 

Thank you and congratulations to all the wonderful members of our team.

Admire Théophile's technique for waxing the double magnums of Château Anthonic 2023!

https://youtube.com/shorts/-5McKrUhokM?si=yLQ_vb69DGyo74pF

https://youtube.com/shorts/rckz64smlzc?feature=shared

Philomène shows you the bloom, the waxy, powdery coating that covers the grapes. 

Like sebum in humans, it protects the grapes from external elements (parasites, light, humidity, etc.). 

As you can see, the 2025 vintage is looking very promising.
Veraison (the change in color) is almost complete.
The berries are superb!

Rainbow grapes... the vine is an artist!

It's veraison, the moment when the berries change color. Here, Merlot. 

The weather is good. Sunny but not too hot. 
Veraison will be able to take place evenly, a guarantee of quality. 

In short, we continue to rejoice: the 2025 vintage is shaping up to be the best!

https://youtube.com/shorts/FVkmNlTsuZw?feature=shared

Jean-Yves, our vineyard manager, shows you the Bouysselet plot.
Bouysselet is a little-known white grape variety that we have grafted onto a plot of Merlot.
This year, we will be making our first white wine, called “white in the trees” in reference to our agroforestry project

https://youtube.com/shorts/0IYgEa-3Jfc?feature=shared

Flowers and vines!
Jean-Yves, our head gardener, is a poet! 
He planted flowers on either side of the driveway to welcome you to Château Anthonic.
Thank you, Jean-Yves.

BOUYSSELET is a little-known grape variety that we will be harvesting this year for our first white wine, which will be called “le blanc dans les arbres” (white wine in the trees).

Listen to the amazing story of Bouysselet. 

This grape variety, which originated in the Villaudric vineyard (in the Fronton AOC) and was first mentioned in 1805, had practically disappeared.

But it was rediscovered in 2008 by Diane and Philippe Cauvin, owners of @lacolombiere.vins, at their neighbors', the Brousse family.

There were only a few vines, probably pre-phylloxera, which had always been cultivated by this family.
The Cauvins grafted some of them onto their estate and observed the high quality potential of this grape variety.

Since then, the relationship between Bouysselet and Savagnin, the king of Jura grape varieties, has been established. 

However, its production remains very limited, concentrated in the Fronton vineyard.

We are therefore very happy to introduce it to Bordeaux, 
paying tribute to Villaudric, its terroir of origin. 

Woods in the middle of vineyards, asset for biodiversity and for our agroforestry project!

We’re lucky enough to have a vineyard that’s practically in one piece: 2/3 of the plots are located around the house.

To be more precise, we’re talking about two islands of vines, separated by a wooded area in which we own a 10-hectare strip. 
Our vines and these 10 hectares of woodland represent a continuous area of almost 30 hectares.

Our woods have been under free evolution (without human intervention) since 1977, the year my father Pierre Cordonnier bought Anthonic.

This wood, which also contains a stream and a wetland, is therefore a formidable reserve of biodiversity.

We have deployed our agroforestry project in the vineyards surrounding the wood. 

In concrete terms, the 5 km of hedges and trees planted in the vineyards (agroforestry) provide refuge and passage for the rich fauna found in these woods.

The presence of this wood at the heart of our vineyard therefore acts as an effective lever for the agroforestry configuration of our vineyard.

Delicate lifting of the Bouysselet overgrafted today.

Bouysselet is the grape variety with which we'll be making our “white in the trees” wine this year.

Philippe lifts the wires in this plot where we have grafted Merlot plants into Bouysselet.

This is a delicate job, as the branch born from last year's grafting is still fragile.

Photo: Nathalie Coipel

Father & Son 

https://youtube.com/shorts/vdhG_8tnAU4?feature=shared

A lesser-known but essential step: raising the vine’s wires.

As the vines grow, they need to be trellised to allow tractors to pass and to improve berry ripening.

Trellising consists of a fixed wire at the top, a fixed wire at the bottom and two movable wires.

During the current lifting operation (on the pictures Sofia & Fito), the two movable wires are raised to hold the vine branches together. 

These wires are then attached to the stakes in the row.

And, as Sofia is doing in the 1st photo, a staple is placed to bring the two wires together. 

In photo 3, you can see that Sofia takes the opportunity to attach the young vines, too small to reach the trellising wires, to their stakes. 

Photo: Nathalie Coipel