The 2011 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type.
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
Fresh aromas of blackcurrant and cherry with a beautiful balsamic and floral complexity. The tannins are very fine and dense with cherry and white flowers notes already revealed on nose. A long finish with elegant tannins and empyreumatic flavors. Tasted by the team on April 2013.
Blend of the 2011 vintage
- 65 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 30 % Merlot
- 5 % Cabernet Franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2011 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 42 hl/haYield
- 125,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Beginning of harvest: 12 September. End of harvest: 27 September.
Ageing
New barrels: 60%. Ageing: 16 months.
Terroir
2023 stands out as a vintage with strongly marked terroir nuances, in which each of our 19 soil types expresses itself with full typicity.
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Texts and documents 2011
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 28, 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.