Château Brane Cantenac, 2ème Cru Classé, Margaux, 2024

Name: Château Brane Cantenac, 2ème Cru Classé, Margaux
Brand: Château Brane-Cantenac
Price: 213 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2012 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

justerini & brooks tasting note

A wonderfully expressive bouquet, redolent of violets, cassis, and mulberry, with subtle inflections of fine herbs and leaf tea. The aromatic profile is lifted, pure and detailed, leading gracefully to a refined palate layered with hedgerow fruit and gravelly blackcurrant. There’s a palpable energy here—juicy, poised, and finely pitched—yet always measured. The tannins are exquisitely rendered: delicate, filigree-like, and laced with saline minerals and graphite. This is a beautifully balanced, harmonious Brane-Cantenac of charm and composure, with the fruit and structure to provide great pleasure over the coming decades. Composed of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, and 1% Cabernet Franc.

critic reviews

93-95/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple colored. Slowly unfurls in the glass to reveal fragrant notes of warm red plums, kirsch, and strawberry pie, plus hints of mossy tree bark and black olives. The light to medium-bodied palate is plush and refreshing with impressive intensity and a perfumed finish. Pretty!

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2042

date of review 05/2025

91-93/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2024 Brane-Cantenac was picked between September 17 and October 8. No Petit Verdot or Carménère were included in the blend this year. It was cropped at 46.6 hl/ha and matured in 80% new oak. This has a refined bouquet, understated at first, opening with black fruit, graphite and deft touches of wild mint. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid black fruit on the entry. With fine grip and very fresh, this is a Brane-Cantenac leaning more toward Pauillac in style as it is sometimes wont to do. Lightly peppery on the finish, this is an elegant Margaux that should be broached before its 2020 or 2022 counterparts.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2050

date of review 05/2025

95/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Tons of energy, stone fruits, cherry pits, damson, a lovely feeling of fruit that has plenty of life ahead it, fresh and juicy with sapidity. not trying too hard just full of pleasure. Edge of grilled campfire, graphite, generosity, easily one of the wines of the vintage. 11.3% press wine, 3.53pH, 46.6hl/ha yield. Harvest 17 September to 8 October, 80% new oak for ageing.

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2045

date of review 04/2025

89-91/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

A blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Brane-Cantenac exhibits aromas of sweet berries, vanilla pod and toasty new oak, followed by a medium-bodied, fleshy and youthfully tannic palate that's lent a creamy, lactic quality by its malolactic fermentation in new barrels.

date of review 04/2025