The Château La Croix Cantenac of Bordeaux

Château La Croix Cantenac - Bordeaux Clairet
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 829 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Bordeaux

The Château La Croix Cantenac is one of the best wineries to follow in Bordeaux.. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Bordeaux to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château La Croix Cantenac wines

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

The top pink wines of Château La Croix Cantenac

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Château La Croix Cantenac

How Château La Croix Cantenac wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of korean bibimbap, eggplant moussaka with lamb or rabbit with cider and mushrooms.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Château La Croix Cantenac.

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

Discovering the wine region of Bordeaux

Bordeaux, in southwestern France, is one of the most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions in the world. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90% of the production Volume) are the Dry, medium and Full-bodied red Bordeaux blends for which it is famous. The finest (and most expensive) are the wines of the great châteaux of Haut-Médoc and the right bank appellations of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former focuses (at the highest level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines made from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites that challenge the best of Burgundy (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the Sweet, botrytised nectars of Sauternes. Although Bordeaux is most famous for its wines produced in specific districts or communes, many of its wines fall under other, broader appellations. These include AOC Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur and Crémant de Bordeaux.

The Bordeaux Red appellation represents more than a third of the total production. The official Bordeaux wine region extends 130 kilometres inland from the Atlantic coast. 111,000 hectares of vineyards were registered in 2018, a figure that has remained largely constant over the previous decade. However, the number of winegrowers has consolidated; in 2018 there were around 6,000, compared to 9,000 a decade earlier.

The top red wines of Château La Croix Cantenac

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château La Croix Cantenac

How Château La Croix Cantenac wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with dark beer, veal chop with mushrooms or aiguillettes of duck with auvergne blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château La Croix Cantenac

On the nose the red wine of Château La Croix Cantenac. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, smoke or strawberries and sometimes also flavors of vanilla, black currant or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Château La Croix Cantenac. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château La Croix Cantenac

  • 2016With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château La Croix Cantenac.

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

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château La Croix Cantenac

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

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.

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