Saint-Émilion · vintage 2018
Why this vintage
- 93/100 from Wine Advocateand 4 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2018 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionAfter the mildew, the heat concentrated a small harvest: rich, ripe and very dense wines.
Critic scores
- Wine Advocate93
- James Suckling93
- Wine Enthusiast93
- Vinous90
- Wine Spectator90
The 2018 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: After the mildew, the heat concentrated a small harvest: rich, ripe and very dense wines.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. 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 2018 vintage
- 70 % Merlot
- 15 % Cabernet franc
- 12 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 2 % Malbec
- 1 % Carménère
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2018 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with merlot, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon, malbec, carménère, petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Label
Winemaking
100% destemming, pre-fermentation maceration, pump-over, gravity or semi-gravity vatting, punching down (original punching robot system on concrete vats), temperature control, long vatting (23 to 28 days), malolactic fermentations partly in new barrels.
Ageing
ageing 16 to 18 months: 100% in barrels including 50% new oak.
An offer on Château de Pressac 2018
Availability, allocations and terms: the Compagnie Médocaine will reply promptly. The estate and vintage are already filled in in the message.
Texts and documents 2018
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. 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.