Chateau Cantemerle Haut-Medoc (750ml)

Chateau Cantemerle is located in the southern part of the Medoc area of Bordeaux, on the deep gravel of Macau and Ludon communes.  It has 91 hectares of producing vines today.  The estate is noted for its architectural beauty and its stunning grounds and surrounding park that is a veritable botanical fairyland and home to numerous rare species of flora and lots of animal life.  The estate’s name recalls the “chant de merle” meaning the black bird’s song and pays homage to the black birds singing in the wooded area surrounding the estate.    

During the 1855 classification of the Medoc, Chateau Cantemerle was overlooked and not included at all.  It’s owner at that time was obviously displeased as this would have detrimental financial implications for the estate, so Caroline de Villeneuve Duffort approached the wine broker’s union to contest this oversight.  She showed them the selling prices of her wines over the years (which were as high or higher than many other classified 5th growth wines) and her chateau was added to the list of 5th growths, the first and only modification to this famous classification until the promotion of Mouton Rothschild in 1973.