It appears that you are browsing a website that is different from your location. Would you like to continue?
Confirm
Redirect to Hong Kong Store
  • Spend HK$2,000 to get complimentary shipping.

2016 Château Cantemerle, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux

2016 Château Cantemerle, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux
Red • Dry • Medium Bodied • Cabernet Sauvignon (52%), Merlot (39%), Cabernet Franc (5%), Petit Verdot (4%)
Ready - youthful
Jeb Dunnuck 88/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 89/100
Jane Anson 93/100
Log in to add to wish list
Code: 2016-0750-00-8004338
Description

This 2016 Cantemerle is a distinctly class act. The red and black fruit on the front of the palate has a rare level of detail and purity for this quality level. As always with Cantemerle, the oak framework is present, but agreeably sweet and fine. There is a depth to the fruit and tension to the structure, which makes this all the more impressive and enjoyable. When Cantemerle is on form like this, it is one of the most consistent and well-loved Clarets at its price-point. 

Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon 64%, Merlot 28%, Cabernet Franc 5%, Petit Verdot 3%

  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Vintage
    2016
  • Alcohol
    13%
  • Maturity
    Ready - youthful
  • Grape
    Cabernet Sauvignon (52%), Merlot (39%), Cabernet Franc (5%), Petit Verdot (4%)
  • Body
    Medium Bodied
  • Producer
    Château Cantemerle
Critics reviews
Jeb Dunnuck 88/100

The 2016 Château Cantemerle is a solid effort, yielding ample mulberry and black cherry fruit intermixed with notions of tobacco, cedarwood, and spring flowers. It’s not a blockbuster but has a perfumed, complex, medium-bodied style that’s a joy to drink. Enjoy it over the coming 10-15 years.

Drink 2019 - 2034

Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (February2019)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 89/100

Medium garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Cantemerle offers up warm plums, black cherries and mulberries with an earth and bay leaves undercurrent. The palate is medium-bodied with just enough fruit and pleasantly chewy tannins, finishing with an herbal lift.

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (November2018)
Jane Anson 93/100

Sweet fruit on the nose is joined by plum and touches of vanillin. It has a southern Médoc feel, with almost-jammy fruit and a gourmet, damson streak. Edgy tannins hold the appealing, generous fruit, and the acidity is pretty high, but that's a signature of the vintage. A blend of the two Cabernets, Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot, aged for 12 months in oak, 40% new. Eric Boissenot consults.

Drink 2024 - 2040

Jane Anson, Decanter.com (October2018)

Haut-Médoc

Château Cantemerle

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
It is adaptable to a wide range of soils, although it performs particularly well on well-drained, low-fertile soils. It has small, dusty, black-blue berries with thick skins that produce deeply coloured, full-bodied wines with notable tannins. Its spiritual home is the Médoc and Graves regions of Bordeaux where it thrives on the well-drained gravel-rich soils producing tannic wines with piercing blackcurrant fruits that develop complex cedarwood and cigar box nuances when fully mature.

The grape is widely planted in California where Cabernet Sauvignon based wines are distinguished by their rich mixture of cassis, mint, eucalyptus and vanilla oak. It is planted across Australia and with particular success in Coonawarra where it is suited to the famed Terra Rossa soil. In Italy barrique aged Cabernet Sauvignon is a key component in Super Tuscans such as Tignanello and Sassicaia, either on its own or as part of a blend with Sangiovese.
Browse Now
You may also like
Need help?
Please contact us from the contact form
Contact Us