Cantemerle 2010

Haut Medoc, Fifth Growth

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Tasting Notes
The 2010 Cantemerle is vigorous and open on the nose, a mixture of red and black fruit with cedar and humidor scents. I admire the focus and detail. The palate is rounded in texture on the entry. This is a plumper, richer, more fruit-driven 2010 with a lush finish on the context of the growing season. You could broach this now, although I would prefer to leave it another three or four years. This is another excellent wine and candidate for most over-performing cru this vintage. Score: 93 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2022-2045 01 April 2020
Tasted twice with consistent notes the Cantemerle 2010 has a tertiary bouquet with ripe blackberry, plum and citrus peel. The palate is medium-bodied with a citrus thread lending fine freshness and vitality. There is a little hardness to the tannins but this should soften by the time of bottling. Good tension here. This is a sterling effort from Cantemerle. Tasted April 2011. Score: 90 - 92 Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 26 April 2011
The wine needs a good 7-10 years of cellaring and should keep for 30 more years, but this is the finest Cantemerle I have encountered in my professional career of tasting young vintages (dating back 34 years now). Stunningly deep ruby/purple, with a beautiful nose of spring flowers intermixed with perfumed raspberry and blueberry notes, it exhibits a sort of cool-climate character. Broad, rich and intense on the palate, the wine has plenty of tannins, but they are sweet and well-integrated. Everything is delicately entwined into this beautiful, medium to full-bodied, dense purple wine, which shows stunning character and a prodigious potential for development. This is definitely a major sleeper of the vintage and even better than I thought from barrel. With its 2010, this classified growth located in the southern end of the Medoc may well have made a modern-day version of their legendary 1949. (94+ Points) Score: 94 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020-2050 01 February 2013
A quintessentially elegant style of Bordeaux, the opaque ruby/purple-tinged 2010 Cantemerle possesses elegant floral notes intermixed with hints of blueberries, raspberries, sweet red cherries and currants. Medium-bodied with impressive purity, concentration and texture, it is not a heavyweight, but rather a well-proportioned, stylish red that should drink nicely for 15-20 years. Score: 91 - 93 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 04 May 2011
Riper and sweeter fruited on the nose than Lagune. Acidity sings aloud but there's just enough dark fruit to balance. Taut. Score: 16 - 17 Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2016-2025 10 April 2012
Deep colour, bright purple rim. Big, broad and rich with fresh black fruit, a hint of spices and ground coffee oak. Good weight of fruit and a bright tangy finish. Well-made. Score: 90 - 92 Albany Vintners, - 27 April 2011
Lower yields in general than 2009 but they almost reached the maximum allowed because of their high density. 53 hl/ha. Very dark purple. Big and raw and blustering. Quite a bruiser! Very sweet and lively and classy with marked mulberry fruit. Very powerful with masses of tannins hidden away underneath too. Well-integrated nose with both concentration and vivacity. Nicely balanced and behaved even without real nerve. Just a little stolid on the finish. Tasted both open and blind. Score: 16 Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2017-2028 13 April 2011
Very dark. Polished nose. But then pretty green on the finish. Nice attempt but just not quite ripe enough. Just a bit too austere. 15.5 points Score: 15 - 16 Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2015-2021 01 April 2010
Finely expressed, deep but lifted and potentially complex fruit, refreshing acidity and firmness to add length to its habitual charm. Score: 17 Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2017-2026 01 April 2011

Tasting Notes

The 2010 Cantemerle is vigorous and open on the nose, a mixture of red and black fruit with cedar and humidor scents. I admire the focus and detail. The palate is rounded in texture on the entry. This is a plumper, richer, more fruit-driven 2010 with a lush finish on the context of the growing season. You could broach this now, although I would prefer to leave it another three or four years. This is another excellent wine and candidate for most over-performing cru this vintage.

Score: 93

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2022-2045 01 April 2020

Tasted twice with consistent notes the Cantemerle 2010 has a tertiary bouquet with ripe blackberry, plum and citrus peel. The palate is medium-bodied with a citrus thread lending fine freshness and vitality. There is a little hardness to the tannins but this should soften by the time of bottling. Good tension here. This is a sterling effort from Cantemerle. Tasted April 2011.

Score: 90 - 92

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 26 April 2011

The wine needs a good 7-10 years of cellaring and should keep for 30 more years, but this is the finest Cantemerle I have encountered in my professional career of tasting young vintages (dating back 34 years now). Stunningly deep ruby/purple, with a beautiful nose of spring flowers intermixed with perfumed raspberry and blueberry notes, it exhibits a sort of cool-climate character. Broad, rich and intense on the palate, the wine has plenty of tannins, but they are sweet and well-integrated. Everything is delicately entwined into this beautiful, medium to full-bodied, dense purple wine, which shows stunning character and a prodigious potential for development. This is definitely a major sleeper of the vintage and even better than I thought from barrel. With its 2010, this classified growth located in the southern end of the Medoc may well have made a modern-day version of their legendary 1949. (94+ Points)

Score: 94

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020-2050 01 February 2013

A quintessentially elegant style of Bordeaux, the opaque ruby/purple-tinged 2010 Cantemerle possesses elegant floral notes intermixed with hints of blueberries, raspberries, sweet red cherries and currants. Medium-bodied with impressive purity, concentration and texture, it is not a heavyweight, but rather a well-proportioned, stylish red that should drink nicely for 15-20 years.

Score: 91 - 93

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 04 May 2011

Riper and sweeter fruited on the nose than Lagune. Acidity sings aloud but there's just enough dark fruit to balance. Taut.

Score: 16 - 17

Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2016-2025 10 April 2012

Deep colour, bright purple rim. Big, broad and rich with fresh black fruit, a hint of spices and ground coffee oak. Good weight of fruit and a bright tangy finish. Well-made.

Score: 90 - 92

Albany Vintners, - 27 April 2011

Lower yields in general than 2009 but they almost reached the maximum allowed because of their high density. 53 hl/ha. Very dark purple. Big and raw and blustering. Quite a bruiser! Very sweet and lively and classy with marked mulberry fruit. Very powerful with masses of tannins hidden away underneath too. Well-integrated nose with both concentration and vivacity. Nicely balanced and behaved even without real nerve. Just a little stolid on the finish. Tasted both open and blind.

Score: 16

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2017-2028 13 April 2011

Very dark. Polished nose. But then pretty green on the finish. Nice attempt but just not quite ripe enough. Just a bit too austere. 15.5 points

Score: 15 - 16

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2015-2021 01 April 2010

Finely expressed, deep but lifted and potentially complex fruit, refreshing acidity and firmness to add length to its habitual charm.

Score: 17

Decanter, Decanter.com Maturity: 2017-2026 01 April 2011

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