Margaux · vintage 2009
The 2009 vintage in Margaux
Vintage benchmark: 98/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A sun-drenched season from start to finish gave opulent, fleshy wines, immediately appealing yet built for the cellar.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Margaux. 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
A wine made of finesse and elegance. Expressing the exquisite bouquet particular to the Margaux region, it stands out for its qualities of suppleness, charm and finesse that are specific to its terroir.
Blend of the 2009 vintage
- 62 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 38 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2009 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot, malbec — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2009 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 18 hl/haYield
- 35 yrsVine age
- 125,000 bottlesProduction
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Winemaking
Fermentations take place in the two recently renovated tank rooms, perfectly suited to parcel-by-parcel vinification, as well as in the climate-controlled cellars for the lots undergoing malolactic fermentation in barrel.
Ageing
In oak barrels for 16 months
Terroir
Château d’Issan has two distinctive features: the vines are almost entirely enclosed by walls and, unlike its neighbours, the estate grows no Cabernet Franc. The soils form a fine terroir of Günzian gravels and clay-limestone land.
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Texts and documents 2009
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, labels. 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.