Saint-Émilion · vintage 2011
Château Cruzeau 2011
Ageing potentialAt its best between 3 and 6 years, can age up to 15 years. Drinking window: 2013-2026.
Why this vintage
- The 2011 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionA warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young.
- Ageing potentialAt its best between 3 and 6 years, can age up to 15 years. Drinking window: 2013-2026.
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.
Tasting
Wine style: rich and powerful. Appearance: Château de Cruzeau benefits from a beautiful south-facing orientation. The 2011 sun rays allowed for a slow and complete ripening of the grapes. The colouring matter is very dense, coating the glass with a magnificent deep purple red. Nose: tasted shortly after bottling, the wine already reveals itself to be elegant. Vanilla fragrances underline the red fruit, vanilla and raspberry, which escape in small touches. Palate: the wines of Château de Cruzeau are known to be built for ageing. The 2011 will not disappoint. One perceives the power of the tannins, contained by a smooth and generous structure. Its promising finish will allow it, in three or four years, to enhance meats in sauce and game. It would, for example, be perfect with stuffed quail!
Blend of the 2011 vintage
- 55 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 43 % Merlot
- 2 % Cabernet Franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 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 2011 sheet
- 18 yrsVine age
Label
Winemaking
Harvest: hand-picked or mechanical after manual selection in the vineyard. Fermentation: in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks with a patented cap-breaking system. Fermentation temperature: 28 to 30°C. Malolactic: yes.
Ageing
12 months in barrels (30-40 % new) with quarterly racking. Fining: with egg white.
Food pairings
White meats, game, vegetables, cheeses, mixed salads, red meats.
Terroir
Deep gravelly rises
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Texts and documents 2011
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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.