Chateau Sainte Marie Entre Deux Mers 2025

Entre-Deux-Mers is Bordeaux’s white wine country, and Château Sainte-Marie sits on two of its highest hilltops, land first farmed by the monks of La Sauve-Majeure. A spring on the property once refreshed pilgrims walking to Santiago de Compostela. The altitude spared the estate’s oldest Sémillon from the great frost of 1956, and vines planted more than a century ago still produce today.

Edouard Mondon bought the property in 1936 and trained his nephew Gilles Dupuch, whose son Stéphane has led the estate since 1997. Harvest begins before sunrise, each parcel vinified separately with native yeast. The 2025 is classic: grapefruit, lemongrass, white blossom, and a clean chalky finish.