Entre-deux-Mers · vintage 2020
The 2020 vintage in Entre-deux-Mers
Vintage benchmark: 90/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Harvested as early as August, just before the heat, the whites are lively and fruity.
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
The Merlots, despite a hot, dry summer, reached excellent ripeness on our clay-limestone soils.
The Cabernet Francs, later-ripening, benefited from the rain at the end of September to achieve perfect ripeness
At once dense and aromatic, this 2020 vintage shows a great deal of freshness, balance and complexity,
which will make it a great vintage for laying down!
Blend of the 2020 vintage
- 80 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2020 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.
Winemaking
Plot-by-plot vinification in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks
Alcoholic fermentation with pump-overs
Malolactic fermentation in tank
Ageing
In tank, and 20% in barrel, for 10 months
An offer on Château La Chapelle d'Aliénor 2020
Availability, allocations and terms: the Compagnie Médocaine will reply promptly. The estate and vintage are already filled in in the message.
Texts and documents 2020
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.