Chateau Cantemerle Haut-Medoc 2019 OLDRIOJA Finish: Immensely long

Finish: Immensely long

Gerbais farms biodynamically and bottles with conviction — no two cuvées feel quite the same

and refreshingly honest about what Primitivo can be when nobody's trying to make it heavy

Fruit comes from their practicing-organic

and faint plum

Chateau Cantemerle Haut-Medoc 2019 OLDRIOJA Finish: Immensely longCantemerle embodies the traditions we love about Bordeaux, and it manages to deliver real value while doing it. Classified Fifth Growth in 1855 (though critic John Gilman argues it should really be a Third), the chteau sits on the wrong side of Margaux's border the same gravelly Haut Mdoc terroir, none of the cachet or the price. They are one of the few estates still vinifying most of their grand vin in concrete vats. They never adopted the modern