Libournais, Right Bank

Pomerol

6 châteaux distributed by the Compagnie Médocaine des Grands Crus.

The châteaux

Vintages in Pomerol

Vintage	Score	Vintage character
2025	94	A dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness.
2024	87	A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early.
2023	92	Mildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising.
2022	97	The extreme drought was absorbed by the clays: a sun-driven concentration, but without the expected harshness.
2021	85	Frost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth.
2020	96	An early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018.
2019	95	A hot end of summer on rehydrated soils gave a rare balance between freshness and substance.
2018	96	After the mildew, the heat concentrated a small harvest: rich, ripe and very dense wines.
2017	87	Frost struck the slope-foot vines: the plateaus saved the day, and the vintage must be judged plot by plot.
2016	96	A dry summer on full water reserves gave fresh, deep wines, magical on the asteria limestone.
2015	98	A hot summer refreshed by August rains gave the great Right Bank vintage: sublime, built on fruit and depth.
2014	89	The Indian summer served the cabernet francs better than the merlots: sound, fresh wines, without great depth.
2013	76	Coulure decimated the merlots and the rain did the rest: a light vintage, where the gap between terroirs is wider than usual.
2012	90	Merlots brought in just before the rain made for a vintage markedly more successful than on the Left Bank.
2011	86	A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young.
2010	98	The dry summer and cool nights gave dense, tannic wines of extraordinary ageing potential — the exact opposite of 2009.
2009	99	An ideal sun-drenched season carried the style of seduction to its peak: sumptuous, fleshy wines, immediately accessible.
2008	90	A luminous back end to the season redeemed the vintage: fine fruit and delicate balance, from very small yields.
2007	82	A cool, wet summer gave light, silky wines, with a short ageing potential.
2006	87	A wet August diluted the merlots: straightforward, restrained wines, less expressive than on the Left Bank.
2005	98	A drought that never stalled ripening gave opulent, perfectly structured merlots: a legendary vintage.
2004	88	High yields and a dry back end to the season gave an honest, straightforward vintage, unremarkable but flawless.
2003	87	The heatwave pushed the merlots into overripeness: rich, jammy wines, fresher on the clays of Pomerol.
1999	87	A stormy summer and hail reduced the harvest: supple, fruity wines, to be drunk today.
1998	96	The August heatwave ripened the merlots ahead of the rains: the great Pomerol vintage, rich, velvety and of exceptional ageing potential.
1995	92	A dry summer followed by rain during the harvest: the merlots of the great plateaus held firm, and the wines remained classic and firm.