The 1996 vintage in Saint-Julien
Vintage benchmark: 92/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A dry, windy September saved the Médoc's cabernets: the cabernet vintage par excellence, structured and slow to open.
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.
Blend of the 1996 vintage
- 60 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 33 % Merlot
- 7 % Petit Verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 1996 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 1996 sheet
- 12.70 % vol.Alcohol
Winemaking
From 25th September to 10th October 1996.
Terroir
The terroir of Clos du Marquis is made up of two adjoining parts. The first includes vines within the great Clos de Las Cases, vines that produce the wine Château Léoville Las Cases. The second lies outside the great Clos and is part of the Saint-Julien appellation terroirs. The terroir of Clos du Marquis therefore shares the characteristics of the great wines of Saint-Julien, namely a sea of pebbles on the surface and a subsoil made up of gravel, sand and clay.
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Texts and documents 1996
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Visuals
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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.