Margaux · vintage 2010
Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010
Ageing potential10-15 years
Why this vintage
- 97-98 from James SucklingBarrel-sample tasting range. And 5 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2010 vintage in MargauxA dry summer and cool nights concentrated small berries: a benchmark vintage, with dense tannins and a thirty-year aging potential.
- Ageing potential10-15 years
Critic scores
- James Suckling97-98
- Jeb Dunnuck98
- Wine Advocate96
- Wine Enthusiast96
- Vinous95
- Decanter93
The 2010 vintage in Margaux
Vintage benchmark: 99/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A dry summer and cool nights concentrated small berries: a benchmark vintage, with dense tannins and a thirty-year aging potential.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Margaux. 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
The wines of Château Rauzan-Ségla express the world-renowned qualities of the Margaux terroir: a fine, fragrant bouquet, a flavourful palate, a harmonious structure and a very fine elegance. But beyond these hallmarks lies the Château's own signature — an unctuousness, a touch of violets or an exceptional finish: these are the promises this estate will keep.
Blend of the 2010 vintage
- 60 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 37 % Merlot
- 2 % Cabernet franc
- 1 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2010 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc, petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2010 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 37 hl/haYield
- 35 yrsVine age
- 130,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Each plot of vines is vinified separately in a temperature-controlled stainless-steel vat. The cellar master supervises all the vats daily in order to best extract the richness of the Margaux terroir.
Ageing
In French oak barrels, medium and medium-long toast. Racking using the esquive method, drawn off without disturbing the lees.
Fining with egg whites in barrel.
Terroir
The Rauzan-Ségla vineyard covers 52 ha at the gates of the village of Margaux: excellent exposure; a terroir of fine, deep gravel and clay; a typically Margaux blend of grape varieties (54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc); vines with an average age of 27 years; the application of sustainable vineyard management. It is in the vineyard, during winter, that the vintage is prepared: each plot is worked according to its grape variety, its terroir and its earliness, in order to promote even ripening of the berries in healthy conditions.
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Texts and documents 2010
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: 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 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.