Haut-Médoc · vintage 2017
Château La Lagune 2017
Ageing potential20 years and more
Why this vintage
- 92/100 from Vinousand 2 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2017 vintage in Haut-MédocApril frost cut the crop in half: the plots that were spared give fine, classic wines, and the vintage must be judged estate by estate.
- Ageing potential20 years and more
Critic scores
- Vinous92
- Jeb Dunnuck91
- Wine Advocate90
The 2017 vintage in Haut-Médoc
Vintage benchmark: 85/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: April frost cut the crop in half: the plots that were spared give fine, classic wines, and the vintage must be judged estate by estate.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Haut-Médoc. 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
"The second certified organic vintage, it is full, well built, balanced and easy to drink. The fruit is radiant, generous and juicy, with great persistence and a very fine integrity of tannins and oak." - La Revue du vin de France
Blend of the 2017 vintage
- 70 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 25 % Merlot
- 5 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2017 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 60 % cabernet sauvignon, 30 % merlot, 10 % petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2017 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
Winemaking
The grapes are picked by hand and taken to the vat room in small crates. After meticulous manual sorting, completed by optical sorting, the most beautiful berries are delicately sent to the vats for vinification. The extraction of tannins and anthocyanins is carefully measured to obtain the most elegant wines. The final blend is made during ageing with the wines from the best plots.
Ageing
Château La Lagune is aged in French oak barrels, 50% of which are renewed every year. The wines are racked several times during their maturation, in order to eliminate the heavy lees and favour maturation on fine lees. The wine is fined with egg white before bottling.
Food pairings
Grilled red tuna with balsamic vinegar
Roast noisettes of lamb with rosemary
Veal kidney à la bordelaise
Terroir
The terroir of La Lagune is considered by the famous geologist René Pijassou as the Médoc island model. Made up of light gravel and silica, it gives the Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot the grace, balance and finesse that characterise the wines of La Lagune.
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Texts and documents 2017
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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 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.