2017 Château Chantelune Margaux

WE93 From a Margaux property under the same ownership as classed growth Château Cantenac Brown, this wine is complex and dense. It is already supple while retaining plenty of tannins and a solid core that will allow it to age further. Drink from 2022.
Estate Notes: Chateau Chantelune is the smallest estate in Margaux appellation with it 1.2 Hectare. Located on the highest Garonne Gravel hill in Margaux. It produces just 540 cases for the world. The vineyards at Chateau Chantelune have been developed by Jose Sanfins; this tiny vineyard allows him to produce small quantities of exceptional fruit, therefore the best quality wine. Jose Sanfins is also the proud owner of another very small estate in Haut-Medoc Chateau Du Moulin and manager directeur and winemaker of the great 3rd growth in Margaux Chateau Cantenac Brown. The wine is made of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon and 35% Merlot from 40 years old vines and aged in oak barrels for 15 months (50% new).

This unique chateau and parcel of vines have all of the qualities necessary to produce fine wines. The deep gravel soils and heavy clay subsoils are capable of producing good drainage in a wet vintage and holding in moisture during a heatwave. Chantelune is quite simply a wine that represents all that is wonderful about the Margaux appellation. Everything from its miniscule size which allows every vine to be tended to and given the attention it deserves to the plantation of the best vines for the soil types means that maturity and quality of the fruit are top of the property’s concerns. Chateau Chantelune is therefore a wine which is full bodied and round on the palate but that offers also the tender side of the appellation. The rounded tannins add a sexy backbone that leaves a wonderfully warm pleasing feeling on the palate that persists until you can’t help yourself but to go back for more. The elegant Merlot gives the wine balance and perfectly complements the Cabernet.

Jose Sanfins is a world renowned wine maker who is enormously talented and profoundly kind. He has recently finished the renovation work on the winery which makes Chateau Chantelune perfectly reflect his character : efficient, attentive and welcoming! Mr Sanfins produces Chateau Chantelune in every spare minute he has. He also has a day job which he does not want to link to his own property as he firmly believes that the “confidentiality” and quality of his product will speak for themselves. Lets just say he knows a little bit about what it is to make some of the finest wine in Bordeaux without saying that this is what he does during the day or in his leisure time.