The 2011 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 86/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. 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 2011 vintage
- 80 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet Franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 65 % merlot, 31 % cabernet franc, 4 % cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2011 sheet
- 28 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Beginning of harvest: September 16th 2011. End of harvest: October 4th 2011.
Ageing
French oak barrels for 16 months, 50% new barrels.
Terroir
Sand clay soils with iron dross sub-soil.
An offer on Château Chauvin 2011
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Texts and documents 2011
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
This wine’s visuals are grouped in the media library. 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 28, 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.