Why this vintage
- 99-100 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 6 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2018 vintage in Saint-JulienAfter a spring marked by mildew, the heat concentrated a small crop: rich, ripe wines with great depth of material.
Critic scores
- James Suckling99-100
- Jeb Dunnuck100
- Wine Advocate99
- Wine Enthusiast98
- Vinous97
- Wine Spectator97
- Decanter92
The 2018 vintage in Saint-Julien
Vintage benchmark: 95/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: After a spring marked by mildew, the heat concentrated a small crop: rich, ripe wines with great depth of material.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Julien. 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 wines of the 2018 vintage offer a beautifully accomplished maturity and stand as promises of a very long ageing potential. They are powerful, exceptionally structured and full bodied, complex and opulent but perfectly balanced, with an outstanding freshness and a glorious finesse.
Blend of the 2018 vintage
- 80 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 11 % Merlot
- 9 % Cabernet Franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2018 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 64 % cabernet sauvignon, 19 % merlot, 17 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2018 sheet
- 14.49 % vol.Alcohol
Winemaking
Harvest from 18th September to 10th October 2018.
Terroir
The Grand Enclos de Las Cases is blessed with a very complex terroir. Mostly made up of Quaternary gravel on a sandy-gravelly and clayey-gravelly subsoil, we also find clays of varying depths and compactness, sometimes even outcropping. The proximity of the Gironde is responsible for this great diversity of soils, created over the geological periods by successive superimpositions. In addition, the river generates a very specific microclimate which allows the grapes to ripen very early and protects the vineyards from frost. This range of geological combinations influences the development of the vine and the constitution of the grapes. This incomparable terroir offers the great wine its unique personality.
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Texts and documents 2018
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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.