Community Tasting Notes 31

• Nutty08 Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 22, 2022 - Wonderful mature nose of cigar and cedar notes with some red and blue fruits. Palate is a bit lean and austere, but there's enough fruit here to enjoy. Moderate finish

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• wine&roses Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 19, 2021 - I drank case of this in the spring and summer of 2019 & found it deeply unimpressive, all gooey fruit, like a southern Rhone. Oh, if I had my life to live over again, how I'd lay down Cabernet based clarets and watch them come of age over a decade and more. Two years later, this case is delicious--perfect, complex, old-school claret, like its big brother, Ch, Cantemerle, which I drank so much of in decades gone by. Plenty of fruit, saddle leather, barnyard, and complexity on the nose and the palate. Do let it breathe in the decanter for a couple of hours.

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• Ajvandet Does not like this wine: 86 points

  April 28, 2020 - flat. not much of an after taste. I wouldn't buy again

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• wine&roses Does not like this wine: 85 points

  May 29, 2019 - If you like Southern hemisphere Malbec or Rhone grenache, you might like this fresh, fruity, simple wine. But if you're a claret fan, don't touch it with a barge pole. It's nothing like the fine 2009 vintage of this wine or the many vintages of the first wine of this chateau that I have happily drunk over the decades. I have no idea what went wrong, but I'm now an ex-Cantemerle man.

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• wine&roses wrote:

  February 17, 2019 - To my taste, this is still pretty primary--lots of heavy fruit, with glycerin texture--and as yet none of the classic-claret barnyard, tobacco, and old-library nose & palate the 2009 offered. I expect all this will develop, but it's hard to discern on the horizon as yet.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Château Cantemerle
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Les Allées de Cantemerle
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Haut-Médoc
• UPC Codes 3284398007064, 3419466185331, 3448821404428, 3450301112341, 3453521210606, 346817774100, 3563680140109, 603568101167

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• In Cellars 351 (37%)
• Consumed 601 (63%)

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