Château Brane-Cantenac
Grand Cru Classé en 1855 Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend
Margaux, Médoc, Bordeaux, France
Love Margaux wines with rack of lamb. It is a classic pair as long as you are not doing a Mediterranean mint prep. This is salt, pepper, Napa Valley rub and red wine.
As it airs and intermixes w/ the meal, it rises from 93 to 94.
The wine is approaching its peak. Still has another 10 yrs of appropriate drinking.
The fruits are ripe, juicy; blackberries, black raspberries, plum, dark cherries, strawberries, raspberries with hues of purple & blue fruits. There is excellent integration & evolution. Led pencil shavings, fresh & dry herbs, moist grey volcanic minerals/clay, fresh & dry tobacco, sandalwood, used leather, soft, dark spice with heat on the long set, limestone, dry crushed rocks into powder, touch of black pepper, saline, fresh dark, red flowers with violets, excellent, cool rainfall acidity, well woven, balanced, softly tensioned & structured with a pure elegant finish that lasts a full two-minutes.
Love Margaux wines with rack of lamb. It is a classic pair as long as you are not doing a Mediterranean mint prep. This is salt, pepper, Napa Valley rub and red wine.
As it airs and intermixes w/ the meal, it rises from 93 to 94.
The wine is approaching its peak. Still has another 10 yrs of appropriate drinking.
The fruits are ripe, juicy; blackberries, black raspberries, plum, dark cherries, strawberries, raspberries with hues of purple & blue fruits. There is excellent integration & evolution. Led pencil shavings, fresh & dry herbs, moist grey volcanic minerals/clay, fresh & dry tobacco, sandalwood, used leather, soft, dark spice with heat on the long set, limestone, dry crushed rocks into powder, touch of black pepper, saline, fresh dark, red flowers with violets, excellent, cool rainfall acidity, well woven, balanced, softly tensioned & structured with a pure elegant finish that lasts a full two-minutes.
Funky, intense, open-knit, low-tension.
Funky, intense, open-knit, low-tension.
Mar 18th, 2017
Holding up well for 2003. Drinking now.
Holding up well for 2003. Drinking now.
May 6th, 2016
Delicat, en finesse, finale douce et assez longue. Ne goutait pas la chaleur et la lourdeur du millésime solaire. Sur le tabac, fruits rouges, herbal, graphite, j’ai bien aimé
Delicat, en finesse, finale douce et assez longue. Ne goutait pas la chaleur et la lourdeur du millésime solaire. Sur le tabac, fruits rouges, herbal, graphite, j’ai bien aimé
Nov 21st, 2021
Light. Cedar, tobacco, cherry, and saddle leather
Light. Cedar, tobacco, cherry, and saddle leather
Jun 21st, 2016Very interesting. Has a bit of a cooked profile, almost tired. But in talking with Maria de Lourdes it's been this way for some time. Will be interesting to see if this passes
Very interesting. Has a bit of a cooked profile, almost tired. But in talking with Maria de Lourdes it's been this way for some time. Will be interesting to see if this passes
Apr 23rd, 2016