Château de Camensac: Tasting & Drinking
In order to consider the position of Château de Camensac within Bordeaux today, it is perhaps worth looking back to the words penned by the vinously-minded poet Pierre Biarnez (1798 – 1874) with regard to this estate.
Ainsi de Camensac s’agrandit la lumière
Et le château moderne, au lieu de la chaumière
Et d’un vaste cellier l’obscure cavité
Vont consacrer son rang avec sa qualité
Camensac d’un cinquième a déja tout de lustre,
Et doit peut-être encor devenir plus illustre
Pierre Biarnez always managed to put a positive spin on any château of which he wrote, concluding here that Château de Camensac, an estate already displaying a handsome “lustre”, was set to become even more famous with time. Biarnez was not alone in this belief though; during the last two centuries my research has revealed that a number of other wine-minded authors have suggested the estate was sure to rise to new heights.
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