2010 Ch. Cantemerle, Haut-Médoc

This is absolutely terrific! Always reliable, good value but perhaps a little too steady, their 2010 takes it up several notches and on to a whole new level. It is really generous with ripe fruit, and should offer terrific value for the best Cantemerle we can ever recall tasting.
(Simon Staples, BBR Fine Wine Director)
Château Cantemerle

Finely expressed, deep but lifted and potentially complex fruit, refreshing acidity and firmness to add length to its habitual charm.
(Steven Spurrier – Decanter – Apr 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.
(Jancis Robinson MW- jancis robinson.com Apr 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+ Robert Parker- Wine Advocate- Feb 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.
(91-93 Robert Parker- Wine Advocate- May 2011)