The Château Cante Merle of Saint-Émilion of Bordeaux

Château Cante Merle
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 1386 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Saint-Émilion in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Cante Merle is one of the best wineries to follow in Saint-Émilion.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Saint-Émilion to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Cante Merle wines

Looking for the best Château Cante Merle wines in Saint-Émilion among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Cante Merle wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Château Cante Merle wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Cante Merle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Cante Merle

How Château Cante Merle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef enchilladas au gratin, mansaf, or jordanian lamb (jordan) or oven roasted rabbit with mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Cante Merle

In the mouth the red wine of Château Cante Merle. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Cante Merle

  • 2000With an average score of 4.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Cante Merle.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

Discovering the wine region of Saint-Émilion

The wine region of Saint-Émilion is located in the region of Libournais of Bordeaux of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Baron Philippe de Rothschild or the Château Le Chatelet produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Émilion are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Émilion often reveals types of flavors of black fruits, savory or cocoa and sometimes also flavors of bramble, raisin or sour cherry.

In the mouth of Saint-Émilion is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 645 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Émilion, producing 833 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Émilion go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Cante Merle

Planning a wine route in the of Saint-Émilion? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Cante Merle.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Château Cante Merle and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Group of Bordeaux vignerons launches Pirate wine union

The project began life in 2019 as a Facebook group, created by Graves-based winemaker Jean-Baptiste Duquesne of Château Cazebonne. The positive reactions from both the public and fellow winemakers that followed prompted the group to pursue official recognition. ‘The idea started with me and with my friend Laurent David of Château Edmus in St-Emilion. He gave me the idea of the name “pirate”,’ Duquesne told Decanter. ‘So in December 2019, I created a Facebook group called Bordeaux Pirate to show ...

The word of the wine: Confit

Said of red wines that offer a very ripe nose of red and black fruits reminiscent of jam. On the palate, these aromas are dominant, the wine is very fleshy and round, and leaves an impression of sweetness on the finish that weighs it down.