Region : Margaux
Website : https://www.cantenacbrown.com/en/brio-de-cantenac-brown/
📜 Multiple vintages: 2010 & 2018
🌟 1 year in French oak barrels
👇🏻Vintage 2010 (F933)👇🏻
Grapes : 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc
Alcohol : 13.5%
🏅 James Suckling 91-92 pts
🏅 Vivino 4.0
👇🏻Vintage 2018 (F933A)👇🏻
Grapes : 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc
Alcohol : 13.5%
🏅 James Suckling 92-93 pts
🏅 Vinous 89-91 pts
🏅 Vivino 4.1
Château Cantenac-Brown is a wine producer located in Margaux, on the left bank of the Gironde river in Bordeaux. It was established in the early 19th Century and was classified as a third growth in the 1855 Classification of the Medoc and Graves. Like most left-bank Bordeaux wines, Cantenac-Brown is dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon, with smaller amounts of Merlot and Cabernet Franc.
The vineyard is planted on gravelly soils shot through with white stones, which help to reflect the sun's warmth onto the grapes, helping ripening. The grand vin comes from vines that are on average 35 years old, and yields are kept in check by the viticulture team. Every couple of months during the growing season, the grapes are checked bunch by bunch to ensure everything is progressing as it should. The grapes for the grand vin are hand-harvested and are vinified plot-by-plot in stainless steel vats. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrels before the wine is aged in mostly new French oak for up to 15 months.
Château Cantenac-Brown also make a second wine, Brio de Cantenac-Brown, from younger vines on the estate, and a dry white wine, Alto de Cantenac-Brown, which is made from a Sauvignon Blanc – Semillon blend.
Tasting notes
The color is deep with a delicate wooded nose and seducing aromas of spices on black fruits among which blackberry and blueberry. On the palate, the wine is elegant, round and smooth, with fine tannins and a delicate finish.
(Vintage 2010)
🏅 James Suckling 91-92 pts
This is a muscular wine, with some yummy fleshy fruit underneath the tannins. Juicy and enticing already. Lots of blueberry character. Excellent for a second wine.
(Vintage 2018)
🏅 James Suckling 92-93 pts
This is very rich and edgy with lovely brightness and freshness, underlying the black and blue fruit. Warm and spicy, too. Medium to full body. Pretty second wine.
🏅 Vinous 89-91 pts
The 2018 BriO de Cantenac Brown is dark, fleshy and enveloping. Black cherry, chocolate, spice, leather, espresso andtobacco all race out of the glass in a sumptuous, exotically ripe second wine from Cantenac Brown. juicy and supple,the 2018 Bri0 will drink beautifully right out of the gate.
$298/bottle (Vintage 2010)
$220/bottle, A set of 6 bottles: $1230 (On Average $205) (Vintage 2018)
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