2014 Château Brane-Cantenac, Margaux, Bordeaux
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Cabernet Sauvignon (77%), Merlot (21%), Cabernet Franc (2%)
- Jancis Robinson MW
- 17/20
- Steven Spurrier
- 91/100
- Antonio Galloni
- 92/100
- Jane Anson MW
- 92/100
- Neal Martin
- 92/100
- James Suckling
- 92/100
- Neal Martin
- 92/100
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Description
Château Brane-Cantenac is among the most reliable names on Bordeaux’s Left Bank, ranked a Second Growth in 1855.
The 2014 has immediate appeal on the nose, with black fruits, peppery spice, violets and cigar box aromas. It’s a delicious Claret to drink now, with inviting flavours of blackberry, plum and earthy complexity from bottle age. It also has the structure to age further, with fine tannins and refreshing acidity. The spicy note works very well with Ixta Belfrage’s porcini mushroom ragu, though you couldn’t go wrong with a simply prepared duck breast.
Charlie Geoghegan DipWSET, Berry Bros. & Rudd
Critics reviews
Tasted blind. Rich, dense, pretty exciting with lots of nerviness. Complex. Deep flavoured.
Drink 2021 - 2040
Lovely fragrance, the class evident from start to the finish. Very Brane-Cantenac: floral, great finesse, elegant persistence and a good future.
Drink 2019 - 2034
The 2014 Brane-Cantenac is a burly, powerful wine that will need quite a bit of time to come into its own, although it may never be particularly refined. The tannins are clenched and imposing today, especially for the wine’s medium-bodied frame. Bright red stone fruit, white pepper and floral notes are some of the signatures.
Drink 2024 - 2039
Harvesting right through until 17th October, was rewarded by well-ripened Cabernet that shows itself in the plush, carefully extracted plummy fruit. This lovely wine shows how carefully and precisely Brane has built up its fruit definition and texture over the past few years. It's unquestionably a successful wine with poise, fluidity and confident tannins.
Drink 2024 - 2036
The 2014 Brane-Cantenac is similar to the bottle poured blind at the Southwold tasting just a few weeks earlier. It has a crisp red currant and cranberry bouquet laced with tobacco, cedar and chalk.
The palate is well-defined and beautifully balanced, delivering crisp acidity and fine tannin. This is unashamedly taut and linear, but it displays commendable energy on the mineral-driven finish.
There is great potential here, although I recommend giving it a few years in bottle. Tasted at the Brane-Cantenac vertical at the property.
Drink 2025 - 2050
A little bit lighter than some of the 2014 Margauxs, but this is quite an elegant wine with a long, dry finish of some sophistication.
Drink now or hold
The 2014 Brane-Cantenac has a very classy bouquet, very well defined with blackberry, cedar and tobacco scents, that trademark graphite scent emerging with a few swirls of the glass. It is exactly what you expect from this Margaux estate.
The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, well-judged acidity, graphite and cedar towards the linear finish that will clearly need several years to unfold. Classic Margaux really, but wise owls will cellar it away for several years.
Drink 2022 - 2045
About this wine
Margaux
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