Cantenac

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Coordinates: 45°01′45″N 0°39′09″W / 45.0291666667, -0.6525

Administration
Commune of Cantenac
Location

Country	France
Region	Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Bordeaux
Canton	Castelnau-de-Médoc
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du canton de Fronsac
Statistics
Elevation	1 m–22 m (avg. 30 m)
Land area^¹	14,26 km²
Population^² (1999)	1179
- Density	82/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	33091/ 33460
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Cantenac, sometimes Cantenac-Margaux, is a village and commune of the Gironde département, located near Bordeaux.

1 Wine
2 See also
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Wine

Situated on the Left bank of the Gironde in the region Haut-Médoc, the area is home to many wineries, however following a law of 1954, Cantenac wines fall under the Margaux AOC, as there is no appreciable difference between the two communes.^[1] The chateaux of Cantenac that were ranked at the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 are: