Why this vintage
- 93/100 from Wine Enthusiastand 5 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2020 vintage in Haut-MédocAn early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.
Critic scores
- Wine Enthusiast93
- James Suckling92
- Decanter92
- Vinous91
- Jeb Dunnuck91
- Wine Advocate90
The 2020 vintage in Haut-Médoc
Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: An early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.
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.
Blend of the 2020 vintage
- 67 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 30 % Merlot
- 3 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2020 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.
Figures from the 2020 sheet
- 36 hl/haYield
- 31 yrsVine age
Winemaking
23 temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, cuvaison of between 21 and 23 days, no malolactic fermentation in barrel. Extraction by punching down (terrace 4) and pump-over (terrace 5). Very gentle extractions in 2020, as the material was very fine and easily extractable. Vinification at 24°C.
Ageing
12-15 months, 60% in new oak and 40% in tank to preserve the fruit.
Terroir
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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Texts and documents 2020
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Visuals
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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.