Cantemerle

Specification

Producer

Cantemerle

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Macau, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux

Classification

Fifth Growth (1855)

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot

Vintage

2009

Case

12 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

CANTEM0912X75

About this wine

Cantemerle is a fragrant, finely textured Haut-Médoc, blending Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot and smaller amounts of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Its style is elegant, with red and black fruit, floral notes and supple tannins, in a lighter frame than the Pauillacs further north. It drinks well within ten years, yet good vintages age gracefully for twenty or more.

About Cantemerle

Château Cantemerle is in Macau, at the southern end of the Haut-Médoc, its château set in a wooded park. It holds a curious place in the 1855 Classification: it was added as a Fifth Growth shortly after the original list was drawn up.

Since the early 1980s it has been owned by the insurance group SMABTP, which replanted and renovated the estate. Its vines grow on sandy gravel soils, and the wine is known for elegance and finesse rather than power.