Pomerol · vintage 2011
Château Petit-Village 2011
Ageing potential20+ years
Why this vintage
- 95/100 from Wine Advocateand 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2011 vintage in PomerolA warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young.
- Ageing potential20+ years
- Limited production30 000 bottles of this vintage.
Critic scores
- Wine Advocate95
- James Suckling92-93
- Wine Enthusiast93
- Wine Spectator90
The 2011 vintage in Pomerol
Vintage benchmark: 86/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pomerol. 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
Despite a very capricious climate, and a period of intense heat, Château Petit-Village 2011 reveals remarkable fruitiness, elegance and silkiness, thanks to unfailing attention to detail and a very strict selection of berries.
Blend of the 2011 vintage
- 72 % Merlot
- 19 % Cabernet franc
- 9 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 75 % merlot, 18 % cabernet franc, 7 % cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2011 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 35 yrsVine age
- 30,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Meticulous plot-by-plot vinification then follows for 25 days in temperature-controlled vats, allowing each lot to receive tailored treatment. After malolactic fermentation, all the wines undergo carefully controlled ageing in oak barrels for approximately 15 months.
Terroir
Château Le Petit-Village lies at the heart of Pomerol, on a magnificent clay-gravel plateau. It is a single-block vineyard of 10.5 hectares forming a triangle. Its terroir is composed of deep gravels coated with light sandy clays over a subsoil of alios known as crasse de fer, characteristic of the great wines of Pomerol. Every terroir has a grape variety that remains true to it. At Château Petit-Village, each plot, with its own personality, is planted with the variety suited to it. Merlot predominates on the property (75%): it provides the flesh of the wine and gives it its velvety texture, its roundness and its generosity. To this are added Cabernet Franc (18%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (7%), varieties essential for structure and complexity.
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Texts and documents 2011
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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.