Saint-Émilion · vintage 2016
The 2016 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A dry summer on full water reserves gave fresh, deep wines, magical on the asteria limestone.
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
Black fruit, blackcurrant, lovely slightly smoky vanilla notes. The attack is supple with a nice tension in the mid-palate; The finish is persistent and crisp
Blend of the 2016 vintage
- 85 % Merlot
- 15 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2016 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 85 % merlot, 15 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2016 sheet
- 25 yrsVine age
Label
Winemaking
Plot vinification in thermo-regulated stainless steel vats. Alcoholic fermentation with pump-over and punching down.
Ageing
In vats and barrels of 1 and 2 wines (10 months)
Terroir
Siliceous terroir overlying beds of gravel and clay
An offer on Château L'Église d'Armens 2016
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Texts and documents 2016
The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.
Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
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.