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Château Lagrange — Saint-Julien
Saint-Julien · France

Château Lagrange

Vineyard blend
  • 67 % Cabernet Sauvignon
  • 28 % Merlot
  • 5 % Petit Verdot

Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page.

Bottle of Château Lagrange

Parcel plate

Château Lagrange — parcel plate by grape variety

Relief exaggerated ×10 · elevation -1 to 23 m · average slope 2.1°

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Footprint, parcels and their split are measured on the Compagnie Médocaine’s own parcel survey; elevation, slope and aspect on the Mapbox terrain-rgb digital terrain model, derived from IGN’s RGE ALTI over France. Compare with the blend on the technical sheet, at the top of the page: the two answer different questions.

Why buy it

The wine

Carried by four centuries of Médoc history and driven by the uncompromising commitment to quality of its Japanese owners since 1983, Château Lagrange has been able to adapt tradition and embrace innovation in order to express with the greatest precision a terroir unchanged since 1855, bringing out the best in each parcel and each vintage, for wines of great consistency, expressive and harmonious.

Terroir

Lying entirely within the commune of Saint-Julien, the vineyard of Château Lagrange covers 108 ha of red-grape vines in a single block planted on two gravel rises running north-south. The estate has a clay-limestone subsoil and a silica-gravel soil, in a temperate oceanic climate.

Estate figures

2025 vintage figures

Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2025 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.

Best critic scores

Vintages on record

VintageBest scoreVintage characterTechnical sheet
202594-96 Wine AdvocateA dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched.fiche · PDF
202494-95 James SucklingA rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.fiche · PDF
202395 VinousJuly mildew followed by a hot September demanded strict selection: fleshy, aromatic wines, more approachable than 2022.fiche · PDF
202295 VinousThree heatwaves and extreme drought gave, against all odds, wines of exceptional concentration without harshness — the great sun-drenched year.fiche · PDF
202194 VinousFrost, mildew, then a cool summer brought back Bordeaux of old: taut, vibrant wines, shorter but elegant.PDF français
202095 Wine AdvocateAn early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.fiche · PDF
201995 Wine AdvocateA hot end of summer after a rainy spring gave wines that hold ripeness and freshness together; the cabernets shine here.fiche · PDF
201895 Wine AdvocateAfter a spring marked by mildew, the heat concentrated a small crop: rich, ripe wines with great depth of material.fiche · PDF
201794 DecanterApril frost cut the crop in half: the plots that were spared give fine, classic wines, and the vintage must be judged estate by estate.PDF français
201695 Wine AdvocateA very wet winter followed by a sun-drenched summer produced a rare balance, combining the depth of great years with genuine freshness.fiche · PDF
2015A hot summer tempered by August rains gave expansive wines, with rounded tannins and generous fruit.fiche · PDF
201494 Wine EnthusiastA gloomy summer redeemed by an Indian summer: the cabernets are radiant and the freshness is true to the Médoc.fiche · PDF
2012A late cycle closing with rain gave an uneven vintage: the cabernets hold up, the merlots remain taut.fiche · PDF
201194 Wine EnthusiastA scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type.fiche · PDF
2010A dry summer and cool nights concentrated small berries: a benchmark vintage, with dense tannins and a thirty-year aging potential.fiche · PDF
200994 VinousA sun-drenched season from start to finish gave opulent, fleshy wines, immediately appealing yet built for the cellar.fiche · PDF
2008A bright late season saved a cool summer: wines of unexpected freshness and aromatic precision.fiche · PDF
2007A cool, wet summer demanded strict selection: light, delicious wines, to be drunk young.fiche · PDF
2006Rain at véraison followed by a dry September gave classic, balanced wines with fine freshness, without the density of 2005.fiche · PDF
200595 Jeb DunnuckDrought without any halt in ripening, together with cool nights, gave a legendary vintage: concentrated, with firm tannins and very long aging potential.fiche · PDF
2004High yields and a dry September gave a classic, unexaggerated vintage, straightforward, now at its peak.fiche · PDF
2003The historic heatwave halted ripening in young vines: very ripe, low-acid wines, at their best in Saint-Estèphe, where the clays held on to freshness.fiche · PDF

“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.

Other cuvées from the estate

An offer on Château Lagrange

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Texts and documents 2025

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Technical sheet (PDF)
Visuals

For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, labels, lifestyle photos. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.

Other châteaux in Saint-Julien

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.