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CANTEMERLE 2012

Cantemerle, 2011

£39.99

13% | 750ml

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In the Middle Ages, the Château of Cantemerle, which still border the Garonne River, made up part of the line of fortifications that defended the banks of the Médoc region. The first traces of the Lords of Cantemerle’s name dates to the 12th century and the viticultural production on the property from 1354; the Lord of Cantemerle paid his tithes with a cask of clairet wine. During the 16th century wine became the main industry of Cantemerle. In 1855, Château Cantemerle was classified as a fifth growth. In 1892, the descendants of the last of the Villeneuve family, the Baroness d’Abbadie, sold Cantemerle to the Dubos family, thus ending the Villeneuve de Durfort family’s “reign” of over three hundred years. Pierre Dubos, died in 1967; his great-nephew Bertrand Clauzel took it over until it was sold in 1981 to the SMABTP group

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THE REGION

The vine was introduced to the Bordeaux region by the Romans, probably in the mid-first century, to provide wine for local consumption, and wine production has been continuous in the region since.

Bordeaux wine growing area has about 116,160 hectares (287,000 acres) of vineyards, 57 appellations, 10,000 wine-producing estates (châteaux) and 13,000 grape growers. With an annual production of approximately 960 million bottles,[34] the Bordeaux area produces large quantities of everyday wine as well as some of the most expensive wines in the world. Included among the latter are the area’s five premier cru (First Growth) red wines (four from Médoc and one, Château Haut-Brion, from Graves), established by the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855:

Both red and white wines are made in the Bordeaux region. Red Bordeaux wine is called claret in the United Kingdom. Red wines are generally made from a blend of grapes, and may be made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit verdot, Malbec, and, less commonly in recent years, Carménère.

White Bordeaux is made from Sauvignon blanc, Sémillon, and Muscadelle. Sauternes is a sub-region of Graves known for its intensely sweet, white, dessert wines

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