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Chateau La Cardonne 2016

RED WINE

PUBLIC
November 2025
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Chateau La Cardonne label
  • Producer Chateau la Cardonne
  • Blend 5% Cabernet Franc
    40% Merlot
    45% Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Medoc
  • UPC 0 15643 25795 7

Reviews

James Suckling 92

Lots of dark-berry and chocolate-bean aromas follow through to a full body, chewy tannins and a juicy finish. A blend of 50 per cent merlot, 45 per cent cabernet sauvignon and five per cent cabernet franc. Needs two or three years to soften.

by JS, James Suckling , 2019

Vinous Media 91

The 2016 La Cardonne has a lively bouquet with red and black fruit, cedar and light mint aromas, quite Pauillac in style. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, vibrant and quite precise with well judged oak towards the persistent finish. Looking for a Cru Bourgeois in the Médoc? Look no further. Superb. Tasted at the Cru Bourgeois tasting in London.

by NM, Vinous Media , 2018

Wine Enthusiast 91

This 108-acre property has produced a wine with rich black-fruit flavors and dense tannins. It has a firm structure as well as a strong juicy element. It's ripe, full and likely to age well.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2019

Technical Details

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.

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.

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"