Entre-deux-Mers · vintage 2017
The 2017 vintage in Entre-deux-Mers
Vintage benchmark: 88/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: The April frost cut yields: the remaining whites are ripe and generous, without great tension.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Entre-deux-Mers. 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
A garnet colour and a nose of toasted raspberry with spice. The smooth palate enchants us with these fruit aromas. A fine harmony for a wine of great complexity.
Blend of the 2017 vintage
- 80 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2017 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 85 % merlot, 15 % cabernet franc, sémillon, muscadelle — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2017 sheet
- 23 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Sorting of the grapes by density (berry sorting), plot-by-plot vinification in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, alcoholic fermentation with pump-over, malolactic fermentation in tank
Ageing
In tank, 20% in barrel for 8 months
An offer on Château La Chapelle d'Aliénor 2017
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Texts and documents 2017
The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.
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.