Pauillac · vintage 1997
The 1997 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 82/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A drawn-out flowering and a wet summer gave uneven ripening: supple, easy-drinking wines, to be drunk today.
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
A clean, fruity nose. Juicy, fresh and full on the palate, racy and long. A remarkable wine, fruity and delightful.
Blend of the 1997 vintage
- 70 % Merlot
- 30 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 1997 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 1997 sheet
- 30 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats for 15 days.
Ageing
In barrel (50% new oak and 50% one-year-old barrels) for 18 months.
An offer on Château Pibran 1997
Availability, allocations and terms: the Compagnie Médocaine will reply promptly. The estate and vintage are already filled in in the message.
Texts and documents 1997
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, 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.