The Château Canteloup of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Canteloup
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Maison Bouey.
It is ranked in the top 875 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Canteloup is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Canteloup wines

Looking for the best Château Canteloup wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Canteloup 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 Canteloup wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Canteloup

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Canteloup

How Château Canteloup wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of melt-in-the-mouth pork tenderloin casserole, merguez with lentils or rabbit with mustard in a casserole.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Canteloup

On the nose the red wine of Château Canteloup. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or earthy and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, red fruit or vanilla. In the mouth the red wine of Château Canteloup. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Canteloup

  • 2004With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.59/5

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

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

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Canteloup

Planning a wine route in the of Médoc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Canteloup.

Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Château Canteloup and wines from the region

Château Latour 2014 released for first time

Château Latour 2014 was released this morning (15 March), making it the youngest Latour grand vin on the market and the third to be released since the first growth estate left the Bordeaux en primeur system in 2012. Farr Vintners was selling Latour 2014 at £4,950 per 12-bottle case, with six magnums offered at £4,980. Bordeaux Index was offering the wine in six-bottle cases at £2,475 in bond. Analyst group Wine Lister said the wine had been released at €430 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, up 18% on the ...

Join us for our first Decanter Taste With The Experts event

For the first time ever, Decanter is offering readers and wine lovers alike the chance to see behind the scenes of our renowned panel tastings and experience first hand what it means to taste like an expert. Decanter’s panel tastings are one of the most rigorous exercises in blind tasting, where a panel of three experts taste and score up to 100 wines a day, based on criteria set by the Decanter editorial team. We’re delighted to announced that this autumn will see the start of our n ...

Château Lafon-Rochet appoints Christophe Congé as MD

Having joined Domaine Barons de Rothschild in 1999, Congé has since held the role of oenologist and wine operations manager across Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Duhart Milon for over 22 years. He has now been appointed MD of  Saint-Estèphe fourth growth Château Lafon-Rochet. He takes on his new role with immediate effect. Congé will work closely with Emmanuel Cruse, director of Vignobles Cruse-Lorenzetti, which acquired Château Lafon-Rochet from the Tesseron family last year. The appoint ...

The word of the wine: Tries (harvest by)

Harvesting in several successive passages to harvest at their optimal concentration the grapes affected by noble rot. They allow the production of great sweet wines.