Entre-deux-Mers · vintage 2011
The 2011 vintage in Entre-deux-Mers
Vintage benchmark: 88/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: An early harvest after a warm spring gave supple whites, made for youthful drinking.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Entre-deux-Mers. 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
Beautiful ruby red color. Nice nose of black fruits, blackcurrant, raspberries with light cocoa notes. The attack on the palate is supple, round and delicious, structure provided by the Merlot. Good attack on black and red fruits supported by a fine tannin structure. A very successful vintage for Château La Maroutine. A wine ready to be consumed!
Blend of the 2011 vintage
- 80 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 34.6 % merlot, 29.3 % cabernet sauvignon, 21.9 % sauvignon blanc, 14.2 % sémillon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2011 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 35 yrsVine age
Label
Winemaking
100% of the harvest is destemmed at the entrance to the vat room. Yeasting. The alcoholic fermentation takes place for 8 to 10 days punctuated by two daily pump-overs. Long macerations follow (25 to 30 days), depending on the grape varieties and the vintage. Regular pump-over ensures permanent contact between the skin and the grape juice to promote the best extraction of aromas and substance. Malolactic fermentation is done in vats.
Ageing
The wine is aged for 18 months in stainless steel vats before being bottled under sterile filtration and a sterile bottling line at the château.
Terroir
Graves
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Texts and documents 2011
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, labels. 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.