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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.2 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 41 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tunaguy on 5/23/2022: quite a bit past prime. not all too expressive with cedar, some dried dark florals, and a bit of cherryish fruit. drink up (1501 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 12/14/2021 & rated 86 points: Hanging on, but without a lot to hand on to, the light to medium-bodied red berry-filled wine offers an herb, dried flower, peppery spice profile with a crispness to the fruit and the tannins. (3110 views) | | | Tasted by Lype on 7/10/2021: Earthy scents and fragrant raspberry on the nose, the palate is mature and provides undergrowth, raspberry flauvors, black currant, leather, bell pepper, graphite as many have mentioned the finish is subtle but quite nice. Not the most complex wine, a bit soft lacking precision but enjoyable especially considering the price point. Fruit is still there but tannins are starting to take this gradually over so I would say its time to drink up. (2128 views) | | | Tasted by Zweder on 6/30/2021 & rated 88 points: Mature bouquet with tobacco, cigar and autumn impressions. On the palate mild acidity and soft tannin. Pleasant and mature wine. (2269 views) | | | Tasted by Amberissey on 6/5/2021 & rated 90 points: Highly mineral nose with cold stone and graphite, with fruit between red and black; wild strawberry, blackberry, black currant. Also a little barnyard. So pure on the nose. Also mega mineral on palette, gravel and pencil lead. Less fruit on the palette and very tart in nature, with some spicy peppery notes too. Nice finish with still a bit of tannin present. Classic example. I noticed that even with a tiny amount in the glass the perfume is so intense. At peak but not rush on my opinion. I’ve had the 2006 and both were excellent. (1404 views) | | | Tasted by paintinginacave on 6/5/2021 & rated 90 points: Four hour slow oxidation. Medium ruby fading to a pale garnet outer edge. Delicate nose of red and black fruit - that became more black fruit dominant as we neared the end of the bottle - highly mineral with graphite and pencil shavings, feint burnt embers, and grilled green peppers. Elegant and well integrated with fine grained tannins. (2172 views) | | | Tasted by Mrboudin on 4/10/2020 & rated 90 points: nice for the price (1942 views) | | | Tasted by SwissHJ on 12/29/2019 & rated 92 points: That's why I love Bordeaux, aging in honor. This one again, still wonderful with well balanced tannin to give it a perfect structure, long warm feeling in your mouth with lots of black fruits. It finishes well and stay quite a while. I fine elegant wine you should drink now (1667 views) | | | Tasted by Andrea1975 on 7/21/2019 & rated 93 points: Outstanding mature Bordeaux. Beautiful nose of mixed berry fruit together with tertiary notes of earth, mushroom, wet floor, and especially graphite. Evolved stature with tannins almost fully resolved but still providing support together with fresh acidity. Moderate alcohol. A bit "light" in terms of mid-palate weight, almost lacking fruit concentration, but in a very classy way (different from modern styles). Persistent and complex. Drink now. (2111 views) | | | Tasted by prof b on 3/21/2019 & rated 90 points: another outstanding cantemerle. pencil lead and cedar combined with dark fruits. in a great spot right now. (2339 views) | | | Tasted by salil on 3/20/2019 & rated 92 points: Fantastic showing. In a perfect spot right now where the core of dark fruit is still very fresh and lively, but showing lots of developed complexity around it with an intense graphite and cedary aroma, and lighter tobacco and earthy notes framing the fruit. The structure's largely resolved here though there is some grainy tannin still lingering on the back, and the whole package is just a fantastic bottle of old style Bordeaux that's drinking superbly right now. (2599 views) | | | Tasted by Jane22 on 12/28/2017 & rated 87 points: zacht, smakelijk, op zijn top (2623 views) | | | Tasted by dalondra on 3/26/2017 & rated 92 points: Elegant soft tertiary flavours in a very dignified old age. (3332 views) | | | Tasted by tendring on 11/30/2015 & rated 90 points: Wine Education Service - Bordeaux 20 Years On (LSE): Opaque, brown throughout.
Animal nose with some fruity notes.
Baked fruit, great balance, fruity mid palate, great length. (5354 views) | | | Tasted by awineo on 5/10/2015 & rated 87 points: This one has held up well for an inexpensive Bordeaux. The fruit was still solid and the tannins soft and blended. (5195 views) | | | Tasted by EirikM on 4/11/2015 & rated 90 points: Cassis, pencil shavings and tobacco on the nose. Mature but still some sweetness from the fruit. Slightly drying tannins. Good grip, good acidity. A bit light on the mid-palate and not very long, but this bottle was far better than reviews here would suggest. (5208 views) | | | Tasted by winecat9 on 12/11/2014 & rated 86 points: Lat bottle of the case and probably the best. No evidence of the awful aromas that dominated earlier bottles. Instead there was pleasant but faint bouquet of mature Bordeaux. Fruit seriously faded but pleasant enough. Tannins out of proportion (too much). Decent bottle but glad to get through this vintage. (4768 views) | | | Tasted by DLeeds on 10/9/2013 & rated 84 points: A nice french Bordeaux, past its prime. (5471 views) | | | Tasted by DLeeds on 4/21/2013 & rated 88 points: We keep our wine cellar pretty cool - in the low fifties - the bottles we have been drinking lately taste like a classic Boreaux at its peak. Complex and just begining to taste like an older wine. (4426 views) | | | Tasted by frontenac on 2/13/2013 & rated 82 points: I think this bottle was past its prime, or possibly infected. The bouquet wasn't quite right. The taste was not bad, similar to what you expect from an aged Bord., but the finish was sharp, not really pleasant. (4274 views) | | | Tasted by jmht on 6/16/2012 & rated 84 points: A faded shell of fruit eclipsed by tannins (5247 views) | | | Tasted by K3ecklund on 6/3/2012 & rated 70 points: Past it's prime for sure. No fruit, no tannins, no complexity at all. Hope you don't have any of this vintage left! (4777 views) | | | Tasted by Rechrom on 12/4/2011 & rated 91 points: What a pleasant surprise. Drinking really well. Some bricking at the rim, nice rich palate with beautiful secondaries of herbs and roasted meat, mature nose although not very expressive, a bit clipped at the finish. A very nice bottle with food and by itself. (4563 views) | | | Tasted by winecat9 on 9/22/2011 & rated 87 points: After all of the awful bottles that came out of this case, finally a drinkable bottle. No evidence of a corked wine in this bottle. (4035 views) | | | Tasted by Keith Levenberg on 8/12/2011 & rated 91 points: Not quite at the level of the 1996, it pains me to say, as I tend to prefer the style of the 1995 vintage in general. Here, however, the wine doesn't have quite the flesh or suavity of the 1996, although it's still mostly integrated and resolved and in a ready-to-drink state. (There may be some room for improvement, but there's not any need to wait on it.) Aromatically, it probably has more things going on than the '96, with some cedar, gaminess, and herbality, and the green elements push more to the foreground over the course of the bottle, eventually manifesting in a leafy, minty finish. This is still a very satisfying wine, but the '96 was more complete, more harmonious, and more elegant. (5072 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Château Cantemerle Producer websiteChâteau Cantemerle Producer's pageRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux)
History of Bordeaux
History of 1855 Bordeaux Classification
"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanMédoc Vins du Médoc (Conseil des Vins du Médoc) - Read More about the Medoc
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The eight precisely defined appellations of the whole of the Médoc (from Blanquefort Brook to the north of the Bordeaux built-up area, almost to the Pointe de Grave) may claim the Médoc appellation. But there is also a specific territory in the north of the peninsula which produces exclusively wines with this appellation. In the great majority, the Médocs come from the north of the peninsula. The great individuality of this region is that the number of vines has increased more recently here than elsewhere, apart from a few isolated spots where vines have grown for many years. Today, the size of the small estate has brought about the development of a powerful co-operative movement. Four co-operatives out of five belong to the group called Unimédoc which ensures aging, bottling and marketing a large proportion of their wines.Haut-Médoc Read more about Haut Medoc and its wines Long-standing fame The legally created division into Médoc and Haut-Médoc dates from 1935. But as long ago as 1815 a Chartrons broker, whose word carried weight, spoke of great red wines in the Haut-Médoc, so recognizing the high quality successfully achieved by this region's growers in the eighteenth century. The same Bordeaux broker revealed that the business world of the Chartrons and the great Bordeaux proprietors had established a sort of league-table of the parishes in which the vine-growing communes of today's Haut-Médoc appellation showed up well.
The Haut-Médoc appellation stretches over some thirty seven miles from north to south, from Saint-Seurin de Cadourne to Blanquefort. Within this area, certain zones produce wines exclusively with the Haut-Médoc appellation. It has terroirs of remarkable quality. And although we may note a certain predominance of layers of gravel (essentially Garonne gravel) from the Quaternary, all these sites are characterized by their wide diversity. Today in the southernmost communes of the appellation, the suburbs of Bordeaux, numerous vineyards which existed at the beginning of the twentieth century have disappeared, victims of urban expansion. But the vines live on... because man has retained his devotion to them.
The astonishing variety of different terroirs, the result of the very extent of the area, explains the diversity of Haut-Médoc wines, a fact which is rare within one and the same appellation.
But, over and above the differences, linked to this mosaic of climatic and geological influence, all these wines have the same family traits of character.
Alert and lively, full-bodied without being too powerful, and harmoniously balanced, they acquire a rare bouquet over the years.
In order to have the right to the Haut-Médoc appellation of controlled origin, red wines must:
- come from the communes of Blanquefort, Le Taillan, Parempuyre, Le Pian, Ludon, Macau, Arsac, Labarde, Cantenac, Margaux, Avensan, Castelnau, Soussans, Arcins, Moulis, Listrac, Lamarque, Cussac, Saint-Laurent de Médoc, Saint-Julien, Pauillac, Saint-Sauveur, Cissac, Saint-Estèphe, Vertheuil, Saint-Seurin de Cadourne "excluding all the parcels situated on recent alluvium and sand on impermeable subsoils",
- satisfy precise production conditions : grape-varieties (Cabernet-Sauvignon, Cabernet-Franc, Carmenère, Merlot Noir, Petit Verdot, Cot or Malbec), minimum of sugar (178 grammes - 6.27 oz. - per litre of must) degree (an acquired 10°5) base yield (48 hectolitres per hectare).
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