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IronGate Fine Wine Auction

Tue, Feb 6, 2024 10:00AM EST - Tue, Feb 13, 2024 08:00PM EST
  • 2009
  • 750ml
  • France
  • Bordeaux
  • Medoc
  • Haut-Medoc
  • Bordeaux Red Blend
  • Red
  • OWC/OCC
  • EE1772
  • EE1772
Lot 266

2009 Chateau Cantemerle Haut Medoc - 750ml - 12 bottle(s)

Estimate: CAD$950 - CAD$1,400

Bid Increments

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CAD$0 CAD$20
CAD$500 CAD$50
CAD$1,000 CAD$100
CAD$2,000 CAD$200
CAD$3,000 CAD$250
CAD$5,000 CAD$500
CAD$10,000 CAD$1,000
CAD$20,000 CAD$2,000
CAD$50,000 CAD$5,000
CAD$100,000 CAD$10,000
This lot is comprised of 12 bottle(s) of 2009 Chateau Cantemerle Haut Medoc - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $950 - $1400 with a reserve of $700. The bottles in this lot come from collection 11443.

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An Ontario based collector who spent summers during university as a French/English translator for wine tours in the Rhone Valley. He started collecting, slowly, 25 years ago but his interest piqued after he began to attend the LCBO vintage dinners, notably one with Chateau de Beaucastel’s Thomas Perrin. Most of his wine was purchased through the LCBO and stored at his cottage in a climate-controlled cellar.
The score for 2009 Chateau Cantemerle Haut Medoc is 91+ from Robert Parker and the tasting note - Readers looking for the more ethereal, elegant side of Bordeaux need search no further than Cantemerle, one of the estates in the very southern end of the Medoc. Dense ruby/purple (nearly opaque), this wine offers up notes of lead pencil shavings, spring flowers, raspberries and black cherries. The wine is ethereal, medium-bodied, and by no means a blockbuster, but long and intellectual. However, the tannins are present, and the wine is certainly capable of putting on weight with time in the bottle. Give it 3-4 years of bottle age and drink it over the following 25+ years.