chateau brane cantenac 2eme cru classe margaux

Château Brane-Cantenac

Château Brane Cantenac, 2ème Cru Classé, Margaux, 2015

Name: Château Brane Cantenac, 2ème Cru Classé, Margaux
Brand: Château Brane-Cantenac
Price: 429.53 GBP

96/100

Inside Bordeaux

93/100

Vinous

Available Vintages

all 2015

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Broking

2015
6x75cl
DP
£429.53

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

This is a seductive, pure fruited Brane Cantenac with masses of sexy, up-front fruit. Notes of damson, griotte and intense sloe fruit are really quite captivating. Although endowed with copious amounts of sweet fruit, there is also some complexity and plenty of structure, but the overwhelming sensation is of joyous, unbridled fruit and pure velvet tannins. A Brane Cantenac to rival their wonderful 2009.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2015 Brane-Cantenac is a classy Margaux that is drinking beautifully at ten years old. It still has those blackberry and bilberry scents mixed with tobacco and light minty aromas that I have not noticed in previous bottles. The palate is medium-bodied with saturated tannins, a keen line of acidity, bright red fruit mixed with curry leaf and touches of black tea. It doesn't have the chutzpah of a truly great Brane-Cantenac on the finish but conveys a sense of class. Tasted at the 2015 Ten-Year-On tasting at Bordeaux Index.

drinking window 2025 - 2048

date of review 06/2025

96/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Lush and intense, grip and expansion through the palate, this is expertly put together, great quality, gentle white pepper spice, fragrant smoked cumin, crushed raspberry and red cherry, peony and roses smoked earth and black tea. Owner Henri Lurton, technical director Christophe Capdeville.

drinking window 2025 - 2044

date of review 02/2025

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Bordeaux

Appellation:

Margaux

Producer:

Château Brane-Cantenac

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Cab Sauvignon Merlot

abv:

13.5%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.