Grands crus atlas
Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page. The estate does not publish the share of each grape variety: they are listed without proportions.
Relief exaggerated ×5 · elevation 62 to 85 m · average slope 2.7°
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Footprint, parcels and their split are measured on the Compagnie Médocaine’s own parcel survey; elevation, slope and aspect on the Mapbox terrain-rgb digital terrain model, derived from IGN’s RGE ALTI over France. Compare with the blend on the technical sheet, at the top of the page: the two answer different questions.
Situated at the top of the limestone plateau that forms the privileged terroir of the great wines of Saint-Émilion, Clos Fourtet is at once one of the best-sited and one of the most highly regarded crus.
Clos Fourtet has a naturally drained terroir of clay-limestone soil with a shallow topsoil. The plantings are 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc. The vines, with an average age of 25 years, are worked in a traditional and considered manner: use of organic and mineral fertilisers, debudding, protection of the embryonic bunches and of the vine stocks against disease, mites and fungi, leaf removal, and green harvesting to optimise concentration.
Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2025 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.
| Vintage | Best score | Vintage character | Technical sheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97-98 James Suckling | A dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness. | fiche · PDF |
| 2024 | 94-95 James Suckling | A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early. | fiche · PDF |
| 2023 | 98 James Suckling | Mildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising. | — |
| 2022 | 99 Vinous | The extreme drought was absorbed by the clays: a sun-driven concentration, but without the expected harshness. | PDF français |
| 2012 | — | Merlots brought in just before the rain made for a vintage markedly more successful than on the Left Bank. | fiche · PDF |
| 2011 | — | A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young. | fiche · PDF |
| 2010 | — | The dry summer and cool nights gave dense, tannic wines of extraordinary ageing potential — the exact opposite of 2009. | fiche · PDF |
“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.
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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.
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