Why this vintage
- 97/100 from James Sucklingand 2 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2019 vintage in MargauxA hot end of summer after a rainy spring gave wines that hold ripeness and freshness together; the cabernets shine here.
Critic scores
- James Suckling97
- Vinous95
- Wine Advocate94
The 2019 vintage in Margaux
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A hot end of summer after a rainy spring gave wines that hold ripeness and freshness together; the cabernets shine here.
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.
Blend of the 2019 vintage
- 70 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 30 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2019 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 2019 sheet
- 13.37 % vol.Alcohol
Label
Winemaking
We started the harvest picking our Merlot grapes from 25th September to 2nd October, following up with the Cabernet Sauvignon from 2nd to 11th October. The sunshine that followed each episode of rain ensured that the fruit was in good, disease-free condition right through to the end of the harvest. We vinify our fruit on a parcel-by-parcel basis in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. We favour gentle extraction to preserve all the aromatic complexity of the fruit.
Ageing
50 % new barrels.
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 2019
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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.