Why this vintage
- 93/100 from Decanterand 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2024 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionA difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early.
- Limited production48 000 bottles of this vintage.
Critic scores
- Decanter93
- James Suckling91-92
- Vinous90-92
- Jeb Dunnuck92
The 2024 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early.
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 2024 vintage
Merlot (95%), Cabernet Franc (5%)
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2024 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet franc, merlot.
Figures from the 2024 sheet
- 13.5 % vol.Alcohol
- 32 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
- 48,000 bottlesProduction
Label
Winemaking
Fermentation in small temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, moderate extraction, cuvaison of 24 to 28 days.
Ageing
25% new barrels; 25% one-wine barrels; 25% two-wine barrels; 25% tank. 14 months of ageing.
Terroir
Clay-limestone and clay-sand.
An offer on Château Côte de Baleau 2024
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Texts and documents 2024
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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.