The Château Chantemerle of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Chantemerle - Médoc
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 898 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Chantemerle is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Chantemerle wines

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

The top red wines of Château Chantemerle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Chantemerle

How Château Chantemerle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef fashion, lamb tagine with figs or rabbit on the barbecue.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Chantemerle

On the nose the red wine of Château Chantemerle. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, toasty or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, citrus fruit or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Château Chantemerle. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Chantemerle

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.60/5

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

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

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.

The top white wines of Château Chantemerle

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Chantemerle

How Château Chantemerle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of delicious marinated pork chops, quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese or eggs florentine.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Chantemerle.

  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Chantemerle

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 Chantemerle.

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 Chantemerle and wines from the region

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Cup (size in)

Specific to the Mediterranean vineyard, this short pruning which opens the stock in the shape of a corolla offers a good resistance to violent winds but does not allow any mechanization of the vine work.