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2020 Château Cantenac Brown, Margaux, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (67%), Merlot (33%)
Not ready (Drink 2026 - 2047)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
91-93/100
Jeb Dunnuck
92-94/100
Neal Martin
94-96/100
Antonio Galloni
94-97/100
James Suckling
96-97/100
Product: 20208006794

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2020 Château Cantenac Brown, Margaux, Bordeaux

Description

Cabernet Sauvignon 67%, Merlot 33%

With an existing reputation for honest wines of good longevity, things are on the move at Cantenac Brown. Bought by the Le Lous family in 2020, there’s already a new environmentally responsible cellar under construction, with subtle changes to the winemaking, too – including lower temperatures at fermentation to capture fruit purity. The bouquet is positive and well-handled, floral and perfumed, with red and blue fruits. The tannins are big but classy; they also contribute to the bounce of freshness. This is well capable of exceeding expectations this year.

Drink 2028-2045

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Alcohol % 13.5%
Maturity Not ready (2026 - 2047)
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (67%), Merlot (33%)
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château Cantenac Brown

Critics reviews

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 91-93/100
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2020 Cantenac Brown slides effortlessly out of the glass with pronounced notes of licorice, tar, tapenade and fertile loam over a core of warm cassis and plum preserves, with a waft of charcuterie. The medium-bodied palate is refreshing, bursting with crunchy black fruit and herbal sparks with a well-managed, grainy texture, finishing long and earthy.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (May 2021)
Jeb Dunnuck 92-94/100
"I loved the 2020 Château Cantenac Brown, a pure, medium to full-bodied, beautifully textured Margaux that shines in the vintage. Offering up lots of classy cassis fruits as well as spicy oak, violets, and flowers, it has plenty of mid-palate depth, outstanding balance, and a great finish. There’s no trace of the often firm chewy tannins found in this appellation in 2020, and it’s unquestionably a beautiful wine."
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2021)
Neal Martin 94-96/100
The 2020 Cantenac Brown, cropped at 36hl/ha, has quite a precocious bouquet of macerated small black cherries, blueberry, touches of cassis and violet, all very generous and seductive in style. The palate is beautifully balanced and extremely pure, offering succulent ripe tannins, perfectly judged acidity and layers of blueberry, Dorset plum, crushed stone and light graphite notes toward the finish, which has just the right amount of salinity. This is a sophisticated and quite cerebral Margaux in a series of excellent recent releases from the estate. Highly recommended.

Drink from 2025 to 2050.
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (May 2021)
Antonio Galloni 94-97/100
The 2020 Cantenac Brown is an outrageously beautiful wine. Ample, vertical and soaring in its intensity, the 2020 is shaping up to be a jewel of a wine. Punchy red berry fruit, lavender, spice, mint and rose petal abound. What I like most about the 2020 is the way it balances fruit intensity with vibrancy and energy. Cantenac Brown is shaping up to be one of the wines of the vintage.

Drink from 2030 to 2060.
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Jun 2021)
James Suckling 96-97/100
Fantastic depth of fruit with layers of firm, chewy tannins that are medium-grained and long in the mouth. Full and dynamic. One of the best ever.
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Apr 2020)

About this wine

Margaux

Margaux

If Pauillac is the bastion of ‘traditional’ Red Bordeaux, Margaux represents its other facet in producing wines that are some of the region’s most sensual and alluring. The largest commune in the Médoc, it encompasses the communes of Cantenac, Soussans, Arsac and Labaude, in addition to the village of Margaux itself. Its finest examples are paragons of refinement and subtlety which have few parallels in Bordeaux.
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