Saint-Estèphe · vintage 2002
The 2002 vintage in Saint-Estèphe
Vintage benchmark: 89/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A dry, bright October redeemed a mediocre summer: the Médoc's cabernets fared well, the merlots far less so.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Estèphe. 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
Superb almost black color with purple highlights. The very aromatic and spicy nose of Cabernet Sauvignon is of rare intensity. On the palate, lots of volume, body and fat with very tight and silky tannins which give exceptional chewiness. Very long finish and great retro-olfactory complexity.
Blend of the 2002 vintage
- 63 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 35 % Merlot
- 2 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2002 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 58 % cabernet sauvignon, 39 % merlot, 1.5 % cabernet franc, 1.5 % petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2002 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 35 yrsVine age
- 200,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Fermentation and vatting constitute the two main phases of winemaking. Quickly, the marc formed from the solids of the grapes (mainly the skins and seeds) occupies the upper third of the vat. It is essential to promote contact between these two elements during alcoholic fermentation.
Ageing
16 months in oak barrels.
Terroir
The terroir of Phélan Ségur, in the eastern part of the commune of Saint-Estèphe bordering the estuary, is made up of gravelly alluvium deposited when the Garonne was a torrential river 650,000 years ago. It consists of pebbles and above all of gravel coated in clayey sands. The varying thickness of these deposits is readily apparent, since it is what determines the rolling landscape of much of the Saint-Estèphe area. The alluvial layers rest on a marine formation of limestone dating from the period when the tip of the Médoc, close to the ocean, lay beneath the sea.
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Texts and documents 2002
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, labels. 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.