Château Camou
- Location: Valle de Guadalupe
- Web Site: www.chateau-camou.com.mx
- Tel: (646) 177-2221 / 177-3303
- Email: vtavino@telnor.net
- Hours: Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon
At Château Camou, they strive day-in day-out to attain a single goal: creating great wines in Mexico. That is why every decision made is aimed at achieving excellence in this marvelous and complex art of converting grapes into wine.
Château Camou wines are born in the beautiful and tranquil mountains known as the Cañada del Trigo, buried in the heart of the Valle de Guadalupe, the most important wine growing valley in Mexico.
The land has ideal conditions of both climate and soil, just right for Château Camou’s vineyards originating from grafts of noble varieties from the Old Continent, to develop to their utmost under the Baja California sun.
At Château Camou, they have passion for quality and take great pains to insure using the fruit to its maximum. They have achieved an increase to 6,000 plants per hectare, the arrangement of grapevines in the form of the lyre, exhaustive maintenence of the vineyards, and meticulous harvesting -picking grapes cluster by cluster- as well as our sophisticated system of pressing, handling must by gravity, advanced fermentation methods and equipment. All of this is being done just so you can enjoy a great Mexican wine.
Inspired by what he saw in the Monte Xanic winery, Ernesto Alvarez-Murphy Camou took his mother’s maiden name, bought 1000 acres in 1995 and created Château Camou. Like Monte Xanic, Chateau Camou aims at creating top-quality wines and is considered one of Mexico’s most modern and sophisticated wineries.
It is best known for El Gran Vino Tinto, a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. The 1995 vintage won a silver medal in the 1998 Challenge International du Vin in Bordeax, France and the 1997 vintage picked up a silver medal at the 2000 Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in Belgium and a gold medal at the 2000 Wines of the Americas fair in Los Angeles.
