Entre-deux-Mers · vintage 2016
The 2016 vintage in Entre-deux-Mers
Vintage benchmark: 91/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: The cool nights of a dry summer preserved the aromatics: taut, fine and energetic whites.
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
Ruby red color. Nose of red fruits - bigarreau cherry - and jammy red fruits. The palate is supple and powerful with notes of licorice and jammy fruits reminiscent of cherries! Very juicy. Beautiful length on the palate with persistent notes of jammy red fruits.
Blend of the 2016 vintage
- 80 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2016 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 2016 sheet
- 40 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
An offer on Château La Maroutine 2016
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Texts and documents 2016
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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 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.