Entre-deux-Mers · vintage 2012
The 2012 vintage in Entre-deux-Mers
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A wet spring followed by a dry summer gave decent whites, more about fruit than tension.
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 red fruits, cherry and raspberry. Full and supple palate with well-blended and round tannins. Good fruitiness on the palate and nice roundness. A Bordeaux pleasure to consume easily.
Blend of the 2012 vintage
- 80 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2012 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 2012 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: 70% in vats and 30% in barrels.
Terroir
Graves
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Texts and documents 2012
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Visuals
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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.