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Ageing potentialStill young, the structure of this wine is dense, supple and balanced. With a few more years, time will amplify its mellow, smooth character. Its very fruit-forward aromatics, marked by black fruit, will meanwhile evolve toward the mentholated minerality that marks this Grand Terroir of the Médoc.
Vintage benchmark: 78/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Coulure, mildew, then rain during the harvest: a light vintage, ready to drink.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Haut-Médoc. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
EYE: An incredible deep garnet red with violet highlights magnifies the brilliance of the wine. FIRST NOSE: The delicate, powerful nose delivers, in successive waves, notes of ripe fruit (warm plums) and black pepper. ON AERATION: As it opens, the aromatic presence of more candied notes recalling cherry confirms the fruit of the first nose, the whole supported by a delicate, spiced oak. With a little oxygenation, the minerality and complexity of the wine emerge. THE PALATE: Endowed with rich, velvety tannins that envelop a firm, precise, fresh texture, the structure of this wine is dense, with spiced touches of black pepper and warm cinnamon. The long, fruity finish is underlined by notes of eucalyptus and camphor that define the great Agassac terroir. Tasted in August 2015.
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2013 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 53 % merlot, 44 % cabernet sauvignon, 3 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
The estate's two great assets lie in the quality of its terroir and in its precious capital of old vines. The terroir, with its warm, well-drained deep gravel soils and its exposure to the sun, is marked by a very early-ripening character, and Agassac is often the first to harvest in the region. The vineyard, made up of two walled blocks totalling 42 hectares, consists mainly of old vines — 40 years old on average across 22 hectares — which form the qualitative heart of production. Since 1997 the picture has been reshaped by grubbing up certain less worthy parcels and by planting Cabernet on the finest gravel soils, until then unplanted.
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.