WINEMAKER’S NOTES:

This unique soil and microclimate are reflected in the wine’s personality. Cantemerle has a brilliant color, a powerful bouquet, and a soft, lively flavor. It is rare to find such refined fruitiness. This great wine can be enjoyed young, when it is charming, fruity, and marked by a vanilla taste which comes from well-integrated oak. This makes Cantemerle an ideal choice for the modern wine drinker who likes fresh tannins. However, it can also age extremely well. Fine, old vintages have impeccable class, with incomparable flavors of sheer elegance. Cantemerle therefore belongs to that rare category of the world’s wines which can not only age, but also improve over several decades.

TASTING NOTES:

This fine estate has produced a powerful, rich wine that has fine potential. Solid, foursquare with dense tannins that will gracefully meld into the fruit, the wine should age well.

– Wine Enthusiast, 96 pts.

Lots or richness and fruit for this winery, showing blackberry, blackcurrant and dark-chocolate character. Its full and layered. Well done.

– James Suckling, 94 pts.

This has the tight tannins of the vintage with damson and an edge of bitter dark chocolate, but it is a success all the same – confident, succulent, elegant and classic. Philippe Dambrine retires as director of the estate as of this vintage, replaced by Laure Canu from Chteau Anglus. A yield of 45hl/ha, 40% new oak, 6% Petit Verdot completes the blend.

– Decanter, 93 pts.