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Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page. The estate does not publish the share of each grape variety: they are listed without proportions.
Relief exaggerated ×10 · elevation 0 to 21 m · average slope 2.4°
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Footprint, parcels and their split are measured on the Compagnie Médocaine’s own parcel survey; elevation, slope and aspect on the Mapbox terrain-rgb digital terrain model, derived from IGN’s RGE ALTI over France. Compare with the blend on the technical sheet, at the top of the page: the two answer different questions.
The wines of Cantemerle, powerful and rich yet supple in character, are the result of a careful balance between tradition and advanced technology.
The soil at Cantemerle is siliceous gravel. This gravel, the product of the ancient erosion of the Pyrenees by the Garonne, is one of the essential elements of a quality terroir. It makes for poor soils, and the vine must struggle if it is to produce concentrated grapes. These soils of sand and pebbles are also very free-draining and play an active part in ripening the grapes, since they reflect the sun's rays and retain at night the heat accumulated during the day. As they age, the vines send their roots deeper into the soil and express more fully the typicity of the terroir that carries them.
Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2025 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.
| Vintage | Best score | Vintage character | Technical sheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 Decanter | A dry, bright summer, tempered by cool nights, gave pure, balanced wines, more classic than sun-drenched. | — |
| 2024 | 93-94 James Suckling | A rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines. | fiche · PDF |
| 2023 | 94 James Suckling | July mildew followed by a hot September demanded strict selection: fleshy, aromatic wines, more approachable than 2022. | fiche · PDF |
| 2022 | 95 Decanter | Three heatwaves and extreme drought gave, against all odds, wines of exceptional concentration without harshness — the great sun-drenched year. | fiche · PDF |
| 2021 | 94 Wine Enthusiast | Frost, mildew, then a cool summer brought back Bordeaux of old: taut, vibrant wines, shorter but elegant. | — |
| 2020 | 95 Wine Enthusiast | An early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness. | fiche · PDF |
| 2019 | 95 James Suckling | A hot end of summer after a rainy spring gave wines that hold ripeness and freshness together; the cabernets shine here. | fiche · PDF |
| 2018 | 94-95 James Suckling | After a spring marked by mildew, the heat concentrated a small crop: rich, ripe wines with great depth of material. | fiche · PDF |
| 2017 | 93-94 James Suckling | April frost cut the crop in half: the plots that were spared give fine, classic wines, and the vintage must be judged estate by estate. | fiche · PDF |
| 2015 | 95-96 James Suckling | A hot summer tempered by August rains gave expansive wines, with rounded tannins and generous fruit. | fiche · PDF |
| 2012 | — | A late cycle closing with rain gave an uneven vintage: the cabernets hold up, the merlots remain taut. | fiche · PDF |
| 2011 | — | A scorching spring followed by a wet August turned the seasons upside down: classic wines, shorter but true to type. | fiche · PDF |
| 2010 | — | A dry summer and cool nights concentrated small berries: a benchmark vintage, with dense tannins and a thirty-year aging potential. | fiche · PDF |
| 2009 | — | A sun-drenched season from start to finish gave opulent, fleshy wines, immediately appealing yet built for the cellar. | fiche · PDF |
| 2008 | — | A bright late season saved a cool summer: wines of unexpected freshness and aromatic precision. | fiche · PDF |
| 2007 | — | A cool, wet summer demanded strict selection: light, delicious wines, to be drunk young. | fiche · PDF |
| 2006 | — | Rain at véraison followed by a dry September gave classic, balanced wines with fine freshness, without the density of 2005. | fiche · PDF |
| 2005 | — | Drought without any halt in ripening, together with cool nights, gave a legendary vintage: concentrated, with firm tannins and very long aging potential. | fiche · PDF |
| 2004 | — | High yields and a dry September gave a classic, unexaggerated vintage, straightforward, now at its peak. | fiche · PDF |
| 2003 | — | The historic heatwave halted ripening in young vines: very ripe, low-acid wines, at their best in Saint-Estèphe, where the clays held on to freshness. | fiche · PDF |
“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.
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