Napa Valley · vintage 2018
The 2018 vintage in Napa Valley
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A long, cool season restored Napa's freshness: the most complete of recent vintages.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Napa Valley. 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 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits a complex style in its aromas and flavors of cigar, dark fruit, smoky earth and chocolate. It is medium to full-bodied, its texture is even, and its tannins are soft. It will drink well when young, but will age gracefully. ” -Jeb Dunnuck
Blend of the 2018 vintage
- 100 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2018 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with merlot, cabernet sauvignon, grenache, chardonnay, zinfandel — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Winemaking
The grapes from each plot of the vineyard are vinified separately, which allows the technical team to be very selective about the batches that make up the final blend.
Ageing
18 months in 85% new French oak barrels
An offer on Outpost 2018
Availability, allocations and terms: the Compagnie Médocaine will reply promptly. The estate and vintage are already filled in in the message.
Texts and documents 2018
The texts below copy in one click for your product sheets, catalogues and social channels. The printable sheet condenses the whole page onto a single A4 page.
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.