Saint-Julien · vintage 2020
Clos du Marquis 2020
Ageing potentialA Saint-Julien par excellence, racy and silky, with excellent ageing potential.
Why this vintage
- 95/100 from James Sucklingand 5 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2020 vintage in Saint-JulienAn early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.
- Ageing potentialA Saint-Julien par excellence, racy and silky, with excellent ageing potential.
Critic scores
- James Suckling95
- Jeb Dunnuck94
- Wine Enthusiast94
- Wine Advocate93
- Vinous93
- Wine Spectator93
The 2020 vintage in Saint-Julien
Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: An early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.
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 great Terroir typically Saint-Julien produces a great Clos du Marquis, of splendid concentration and a distinction worthy of the greatest wines of the appellation. A demonstration of gentle power combining sapidity and richness, offering a saline touch on the finish.
Blend of the 2020 vintage
Cabernet Sauvignon (61%), Merlot (33%), Cabernet franc (6%)
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2020 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc.
Figures from the 2020 sheet
- 13.57 % vol.Alcohol
- 35 yrsVine age
Terroir
Some forty hectares planted to the west of the Clos of Léoville Las Cases, in the north of the Saint-Julien appellation. Homogeneous soils of fine sandy-clay Quaternary gravels. Ever more rigorous intra-plot selections from the best origins of the terroir.
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Texts and documents 2020
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Visuals
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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.