The 2011 vintage in Médoc
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 Médoc. 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.
Blend of the 2011 vintage
- 55 % Merlot
- 40 % Cabernet
- 5 % Petit Verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, petit verdot, sauvignon blanc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2011 sheet
- 47 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
- 140,000 bottlesProduction
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Winemaking
Mechanical harvest with hand-sorting table. Vertical press. Settling of must, low temperature maceration, temperature-controlled fermentation, long vatting time.
Ageing
14 months in barrels (30 % new oak).
Terroir
Gironde gravel; clayey sub-soil
An offer on Château Poitevin 2011
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Texts and documents 2011
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
This wine’s visuals are grouped in the media library. 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 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.