Château Brane-Cantenac Grand Cru Classé en 1855 Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 2003

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

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.

Nick Davis

Funky, intense, open-knit, low-tension.

web bond

Holding up well for 2003. Drinking now.

Nicolas Duchesneau

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

yukiko takeuchi

Dec2018 深沢ハウス

Sylvain Rhainds

2003

WC Fields

Light. Cedar, tobacco, cherry, and saddle leather

Chad Watkins

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