Pauillac · vintage 2020
Why this vintage
- 99/100 from James Sucklingand 6 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2020 vintage in PauillacAn early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.
Critic scores
- James Suckling99
- Decanter98
- Wine Enthusiast97
- Vinous96
- Jeb Dunnuck96
- Wine Spectator96
- Wine Advocate95
The 2020 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: An early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. 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
"Made in our new facilities, 2020 is a vintage of great concentration. With very beautiful tannins, beautiful aromatic freshness and moderate alcohol levels, it fits into a more classic model in Bordeaux, after two warmer vintages. It is a new great vintage, which completes a trilogy with 2018 and 2019. "(May 2021).
Blend of the 2020 vintage
- 60 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 31 % Merlot
- 5 % Petit verdot
- 4 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2020 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot, sauvignon blanc, sémillon, muscadelle — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2020 sheet
- 350,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Malolactic fermentation then takes place, one third in vats and two thirds in barrels. The first blends are made at the end of November.
Ageing
18 months in French oak barrels (75% new oak)
Terroir
Extending over some 100 hectares in the commune of Pauillac, the Lynch-Bages vineyard lies entirely on the soil favoured by the great growths, formed along the estuary by the gravel alluvium of the Médoc. The property occupies the well-defined rises to the south and south-west of the town. The soils of Lynch-Bages are homogeneous, consisting essentially of Günz-era Garonne gravels (early Quaternary) resulting from the slow erosion of the Pyrenees by the Garonne. Highly free-draining and low in silt, these soils of stones and sand store heat during the day and release it at night. Poor and of low fertility, they allow moderate vine growth and encourage deep rooting.
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Texts and documents 2020
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, 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.
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.