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Chateau Cantegril

Château Cantegril - Barsac, Bordeaux, France (2017)

Château Cantegril - Barsac, Bordeaux, France (2017)

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TASTING NOTES

A juicy, sweet wine full of apricots, pineapples, almond, ginger and tangerine notes with honey on the finish.

REGION France > Bordeaux > Barsac
GRAPE(S) 100% Semillon
VINTAGE 2017
ABV 12.5%
FEATURES Sustainable
SCALE Sweet

 

Fermentation takes place in barrels having separated each sorted pick of each individual plot. Aging 12 months in French oak barrels.

Chateau Cantegril is a 22 hectare plot on the chalky plateau of the Haut Barsac. It is located where once a fortified castle of the same name stood back in the Middle Ages.
The winery belongs to the same family since 1924. The Dubourdieu also owns Chateau Doisy Daene a Classified Sauternes since 1855.

History

Denis Dubourdieu and his wife Florence ran several Bordeaux properties : Château Doisy-Daëne, Clos Floridène, Château Reynon (purchased by his father-in-law Pierre in 1958 and where Florence and Denis moved upon their marriage in 1976), Château Cantegril and Château Haura. The management of these estates now falls to Florence and his eminently capable sons, Fabrice and Jean-Jacques. As well as their legendary sweet wines, they also produce an impressive range of dry reds and whites.

The Dubourdieu family owns 135 hectares of vineyards in the Sauternes, Graves, and Cadillac-Cotes de Bordeaux regions. Although there are a few notable exceptions, much of the family’s vineyards are planted on the famous Barsac red sands, composed of red clay on a limestone subsoil. This slightly porous rock stores water throughout winter that can be dispensed to the vines during summer dry spells.

Château Cantegril has made great strides on environmental sustainability. They have eliminated the use of weed killers, and all bud removal, trellising and leaf removal is done by hand. Their carbon footprint is a conscious issue too: they own a forest equal to the size of their vineyards as a way of repaying their debt to the land.

 

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