💁🏻♂️Chateau Cantemerle佳得美是上梅多克區的列級名莊，與眾多列級莊一樣，擁有非常悠久的歷史。自1147年起，這裡就開始了葡萄的種植和葡萄酒的釀造。由於天然優越的環境，賦予了她的酒極好的品質，再加上歷代主人孜孜不倦的辛勤耕耘，酒的品質得到了廣泛的認同。在莊主Baroness Caroline de Villeneuve的引領下，佳得美在1855年的波爾多上梅多克區列級名莊評選中，從上千個莊園中脫穎而出，成為上梅多克區僅有的五個榜上有名的莊園之一。
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在當選為列級莊之後，莊園的發展進入了全盛時期。可惜好景不長，Baroness Caroline de Villeneuve去世後，莊園的經營每況愈下，葡萄園面積也日益縮小。後來莊園賣給了Bubos家族，但情況一直沒能得到徹底的改善。葡萄園的發展跌落到了谷底。直到上個世紀的80年代，佳得美被法國SMABTP集團收購才重獲新生，展開新的一頁。
新老闆Albert Parment是一個葡萄酒發燒友，他在接手之後，對莊園進行了徹底的改造：重新擴大了葡萄的種植面積，從原來的48英畝，擴展到現在的 222英畝(約90公頃)。這一舉動在當時是頗為冒險的，因為佳得美的土地在上梅多克區屬於次優質的等級，而他擴展的一片林地和公園區域非常靠近另外一個莊園Route des 莊後面，Route de s莊離著名的瑪歌村南部僅有幾英里之遙，瑪歌村的土質跟佳得美莊園裡的有很大的差別。這同時也體現了法國的葡萄酒法定產區的管制的科學性和嚴謹性，因為不同產區的土質對葡萄的個性和品質會產生一定的影響。莊園的董事總經理 Phillippe Dambrine 說道，上梅多克區的土質跟瑪歌完全不一樣，即使土壤比較靠近瑪歌村，也不會對葡萄品質造成不良影響，反而能增加其與眾不同的個性。1855年的評級就是對佳得美這片土地的肯定，他非常有信心能在這塊土地上釀出好酒來。除了莊園的擴展外，他還根據現今葡萄酒市場的發展趨勢，優化了莊園裡的各個葡萄品種的種植比例，重新購買了新的釀酒設施，改良了酒裡各個葡萄品種所占的百分比。這一系列的改革令這款列級名莊酒變成一款既可年輕飲用，又能陳年收藏的精品。這使佳得美在重新上市後迅速贏得一片讚美之聲。
新的佳得美顏色深濃、華麗高雅，擁有持久濃郁的花果香和柔和舒服的清香。在充滿了水果味的口感中竟帶有非常難得的精緻和優雅。這一款酒在年輕時飲用，您會感受到她濃郁的果香，還有橡木桶賦予的香草味道，非常誘人。若干陳年後，該酒又有另一番成熟風韻，複雜而醇厚，綢滑的單寧令您的味覺有一種無與倫比的舒服感受。這是一款可以稱為藝術品的葡萄酒，難怪佳得美廣受葡萄酒愛好者的追捧。
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Chateau Cantemerle酒莊在泡皮時並不淋汁，但讓泡皮延長為三星期，加上酒精發酵約一星期，前後約28-30天，只採用30%的新桶來培養葡萄酒，12個月後就裝瓶以免果味消失。酒莊總管Philippe Dambrine甚至選用10%的美國橡木製成的木桶來培養副牌 Les Allees de Cantemerle ，好讓酒在年輕時就充滿豐富的香味。 Chateau Cantemerle的酒標很能呈現其輕柔雅致的風格，不過Les Allees de Cantemerle這個副牌的酒標更是存在一種寧靜致遠的美感，表現出 Chateau Cantemerle 位於一整片的森林之中，從大門到酒莊開車需要一段時間的意象，很幽靜。
🏅JamesSuckling 94pts
A wine with blueberry and mineral aromas follows through to a full body, with fine tannins and a juicy finish. Best for years from here. Needs at least three years of bottle age to soften. Could be better than 2009 in the long run
🏅RobertParker 94pts
The wine needs a good 7-10 years of cellaring and should keep for 30 more years, but this is the finest Cantemerle I have encountered in my professional career of tasting young vintages (dating back 34 years now). Stunningly deep ruby/purple, with a beautiful nose of spring flowers intermixed with perfumed raspberry and blueberry notes, it exhibits a sort of cool-climate character. Broad, rich and intense on the palate, the wine has plenty of tannins, but they are sweet and well-integrated.Everything is delicately entwined into this beautiful, medium to full-bodied,dense purple wine, which shows stunning character and a prodigious potential for development. This is definitely a major sleeper of the vintage and even better than I thought from barrel. With its 2010, this classified growth located in the southern end of the Medoc may well have made a modern-day version of their legendary 1949
🏅Decanter92pts
Plush dark fruit in aroma and flavour, withplenty of extract and a firm tannic base, yet smooth and slick in texture.Still a touch chewy; leave a while. Drinking Window 2019 - 2029 (panel tasting)
🏅JohnGilman 92pts
Château Cantemerle has been on a tear since the turn of the century and is really making some of the most exciting wines on the entire Left Bank these days. The 2010, which weighs in at a most judicious 13.5 percent alcohol was raised in forty percent new oak in this vintage. The result is a stellar 2010, that jumps from the glass in a deep, pure and very classy mélange of cassis, sweet, dark berries, espresso, cigar ash, gravelly soil tones and a deft framing of cedary new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and gloriously pure and soil-driven for the vintage, with a superb core of fruit, great focus and balance and a very long, suave and ripely tannic finish. Château Cantemerle has a very, very sure hand at the rudder these days and is currently fashioning the greatest wines in the history of this venerable estate. A very, very exciting 2010, Cantemerle will need to becellared a solid decade before broaching.
🏅WineEnthusiast 92pts
A great success for this southern Médoc chateau,this is fine, elegant and perfumed. It bursts with a black fruit flavor,balanced by smooth tannins and acidity. It's a wine for medium-term aging over the next six years.
🏅WineSpectator 91pts
Offers a sappy feel, with deliciously pure notes of kirsch and blackberry preserves. Lightly toasted spice and singed anise accents lead to the long, graphite-fueled finish. Should age gracefully.
