Chateau Cantemerle Haut-Medoc Les Allees de Cantemerle 2016 0426JACKSON dried pineapple

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It is one of the most meticulously farmed vineyards in the valley and has some of the best soil in the world for growing Cabernet

concentrated berries that Flora Springs ferments in small lots and ages in French oak

hand sorting

all bound together by energetic freshness

Chateau Cantemerle Haut-Medoc Les Allees de Cantemerle 2016 0426JACKSON dried pineappleThe second wine of Chteau Cantemerle the traditionalist Fifth Growth on the Margaux border whose grand vin is one of the only Grand Cru Classs that can honestly be called old school Bordeaux. Les Alles is drawn mostly from the younger vines, vinified with the same hands off methods the estate has always used (concrete vats, no new oak overload), and it shows the same gravelly Haut Mdoc character as the grand vin in a more open, earlier drinking frame.