Saint-Julien · vintage 2011
Château Beychevelle 2011
Ageing potential20+ years
Why this vintage
- The 2011 vintage in Saint-JulienA scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type.
- Ageing potential20+ years
The 2011 vintage in Saint-Julien
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Julien. 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.
Tasting
This Château Beychevelle 2011, despite the difficulty of the vintage, continues to gain in softness, with a very nice substance and a lot of smoothness on the palate. All charm, with a crunchy grain. It is proof that the orientation given to the vineyard is being translated into the wines.
Blend of the 2011 vintage
- 47 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 47 % Merlot
- 4 % Cabernet franc
- 2 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 62 % cabernet sauvignon, 31 % merlot, 5 % cabernet franc, 2 % petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2011 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 39 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
Winemaking
The vats are filled and homogenized by pump-over and adjustments by saignée. Alcoholic fermentation in tanks is carried out with selected yeasts and lasts 21 to 28 days.
Ageing
18 months in oak barrels, renewed every year by half
Terroir
Château Beychevelle, the Versailles of the Médoc, could only produce a wine of excellence. An exceptional 90-hectare vineyard of deep Garonne gravel, a winegrowing tradition going back to the Middle Ages and painstaking work in selection and ageing bring the wine to its full expression. The blend is 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot.
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Texts and documents 2011
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
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.