chateau cantemerle 5eme cru classe haut medoc

Château Cantemerle

Château Cantemerle, 5eme Cru Classé, Haut Medoc, 2019

Name: Château Cantemerle, 5eme Cru Classé, Haut Medoc
Brand: Château Cantemerle
Price: 326.46 GBP

92/100

Inside Bordeaux

89/100

The Wine Independent

93/100

Vinous

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2019
75cl
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£26.21
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2019
6x1.5L
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2019
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2019
12x75cl
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£266.46

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

One of the features of the 2019 tastings has been the quality of some of the smaller chateaux. Okay, Cantemerle is a 5th growth and is capable of producing excellent wines, but their recent run of vintages hasn't really got us excited. The 2019 is a return to form. In fact, we can't recall a young vintage of Cantemerle we have enjoyed so much. Dark and intense, the nose is packed with sweet black fruit and incense. There's a gorgeous leafy cassis character, which leads to a palate packed with precise cool berry fruit: sweet blackcurrant, griotte and sloes. It's a very plush and impressive Cantemerle with a long, pure, mineral finish. It should be one of the best value buys of the campaign.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2019 Cantemerle has a fruit-driven bouquet with opulent blackberry and blueberry fruit, certainly one of the most floral in the flight with pressed violets developing in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with very supple tannins, fleshy and rounded, though I am looking for more tension and precision on the finish. This is a really fabulous Cantemerle that surely represents outstanding value. No excuse not to have this in your cellar. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.

drinking window 2025 - 2050

date of review 02/2023

89/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2019 Cantemerle opens with cedary / oak scents wafting over a cassis and baked blackberries core with suggestions of pencil lead, olives, and lavender. Medium-bodied, the palate is chewy with bright black fruits and an herbal lift on the finish.

drinking window 2023 - 2036

date of review 05/2022

92/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Plenty of smoked cedar oak on the opening beats, this is full-throated in its extraction, but comes across as confident rather than too much, and as it softens the damson and black cherry fruits are attractive. A healthy 55hl/h yield, with 40% new oak.

drinking window 2026 - 2040

date of review 01/2022

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