Chateau Cantemerle Haut-Medoc Les Allees de Cantemerle 2016 NO20230823 The Rosso is the lighter

The Rosso is the lighter sibling to the estate's Brunello

) The village bottling pulls from parcels around Gevrey and ages in around 20 percent new oak

cooked three days in brick ovens

and the wine is finished as brut nature so the fruit and aged complexity carry through without dosage

Bottling takes place in Campbeltown

Chateau Cantemerle Haut-Medoc Les Allees de Cantemerle 2016 NO20230823 The Rosso is the lighterThe 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.