2009 Château Cantemerle

Community Tasting Notes (264) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  5/15/2024 - tightlines wrote:

  Lovely. Great QPR

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  5/10/2024 - ArtF Likes this wine: 91 Points

  From half btl with perfect cork. Balanced with drying tannins, little fruit, a little better after 2 hour decant.

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  5/4/2024 - Jake Barnes Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Second of two bought at retail. This was open for business from PnP, with well-concentrated, aging black cherry and cassis on the palate, along with some very elegant—and very Cantemerle-like—undergrowth, black truffle, and pipe tobacco on the nose. Great complexity and nuance here, as well as a long, lingering finish.
  
  This was showing about an 80/20 primary-to-tertiary profile and had plenty of unresolved, ripe tannins left and miles to go before it slept. In terms of development, it was way ahead of bottles from my lot of the 2010 and much more satisfying right now. I need a case of this stuff. Even now, in its fifteenth year, it’s only about $55 US per bottle by the case. You’ve got to love the value Cantemerle brings to the table. I’ve not yet discovered its equal in this department. 13% ABV (great; distinctive/****/17/95)

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  5/4/2024 - EvoPeteMTL Likes this wine: 91 Points

  It's a good wine, but the pyrazine is so predominant I thought this was a cab franc from Loire. In a good phase now, not too much evolution or tertiary notes but quite envoyable and well balanced. Give it 30 min of air to help it stabilize.

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  5/2/2024 - vvWine.ch Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Aktuell in einem wunderbaren Trinkfenster; kurz nach dem Öffnen mit komplexer Nase nach Tabak, reifer Cassisfrucht, Zedernholz; weicher Auftakt, zeigt Schmelz und eine reife Frucht, die Tannine sind bereits wunderbar mit der Frucht verwoben, die Säure stützt, im Abgang auf Pflaumen und Kirschen. Sehr hochwertig. Jetzt bis 2038

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