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Chateau La Cardonne 2015

RED WINE

PUBLIC
March 2025
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Chateau La Cardonne label
  • Producer Chateau la Cardonne
  • Blend 5% Cabernet Franc
    45% Cabernet Sauvignon
    40% Merlot
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Medoc
  • UPC 0 15643 42761 9

Reviews

Decanter 90

This is rich, with deeply worked flexible tannins providing fine structure, but they are weighty and clearly able to age. This is a good quality Medoc with typicity and a real sense of confidence - I love the dusky damson feel to the fruits. Not likely to begin selling for the next five to eight years, as this estate unusually holds its wines back until it feels they are ready for drinking.

by JA, Decanter , 2017

James Suckling 89-90

Balance and freshness to this with a mineral, bark and dark berry. Medium body, fine tannins. A little light but well done.

by JS, James Suckling , 2016

Wine Enthusiast 91

Spicy, structured and with a smoky character, this rich wine will develop power. It has a dense texture, layers of tannins that are integrating with the blackberry fruits. This will be a good wine as it matures.

by WE, Wine Enthusiast , 2018

Wine Advocate 89

The 2015 La Cardonne has a crisp and focused blackberry and bilberry-scented bouquet with subtle estuarine scents percolating through. The palate is medium-bodied with well-built tannin, a little sinew on the entry, but there is plenty of clean and pure fruit here, well-judged acidity and a sweet finish that needs 6 to 8 months to absorb the oak. Good potential here.

by NM, Wine Advocate , 2017

Technical Details

Estate

Sitting proudly on the Medoc's highest plateau, Chateau LA CARDONNE has consistently produced the finest Medoc Cru Bourgeois wines for over three centuries. Chateau LA CARDONNE is vinified in an elegant fruit-forward style, with ripe blackcurrant and plum fruit, balanced by a rich, medium to full-bodied palate, with cedar, pencil-shaving character and smooth silky tannins.

With Cabernet Sauvignon (45%) and Cabernet Franc (5%), growing on gravel-based soil and Merlot (50%), growing on limestone-clay based soil, their unique terroir delivers rich and complex wines with minimal intervention, winning awards and recognition around the world.

Chateau La Cardonne 2000 was voted by Decanter Magazine as the Best Cru Bourgeois of that vintage, and their 2005 vintage scored 90 points in the International Wine Challenge. More recently, their 2009 vintage scored an amazing 92 points in Wine Spectator, higher than many of the Medoc Grand Cru Classe wines, and the 2010 vintage was scored at 90 points by Robert Parker and by Robin Brooks (Decanter Magazine).

Their philosophy is somewhat different to many in Bordeaux. In 1990 they built the largest underground cellar in the region, locally known as "The Cathedral", where they have the ability to stock over 10 separate vintages, releasing the wines as they become ready to drink. Today vintages from 2005 to 2010 are currently being enjoyed in over 40 countries around the world.

Tasting Notes

Deep garnet red, with purple highlights. The bouquet mingles black fruits (blueberry, blackberry), spices and perfectly integrated wood. The palate is rich, round and fresh. Impressive and yet fine tannins, very promising. A long finish with vanilla aroma.

Technical data

Soil: Stony gravel and limestone-clay
Altitude: 30 meters
Density of plantation: 7,500 vines per hectare
Pruning: Guyot double
Vineyard practices: Elimination of excess buds; leaf stripping as needed Certification "Agriculture Raisonee 2006"