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2013-CHÂTEAU-BRANE-CANTENAC-2ème-Cru-Classé-Margaux

CHÂTEAU BRANE-CANTENAC

2013 2ème Cru Classé Margaux

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Margaux
Classification 2ème Cru Classé

Good colour, but not nearly as sustained or purple as the Boyd- and -Brown. Smoothly and delicately supple on palate, it has energy in the fine grain, and even spice. Not a heavyweight, but a nicely lively wine. 2018-2024 Rating: 91 L&S (Apr 2014)


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Estate manager Henri Lurton continues to take this large 228-acre property from strength to strength. Of the final blend from microscopic yields of 22 hectoliters per hectare, only 38.9 % became Brane-Cantenac. Certainly this has turned out to be a good, soft, fruit-forward and attractive style of wine, with notes of plum, Asian soy, blackcurrants and forest floor. With fragrant aromatics and excellent ripeness, it is medium-bodied with slightly more texture than generally found in this vintage. The wine will be drinkable when released, and age well for a decade or more. 2014-2024 Rating: 88-90 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, www.RobertParker.com (Aug 2014)

Deep ruby-red. Perfumed aromas of red cherries and raspberry are lifted by floral and mineral notes. Bright and crisp in the mouth, with very pure sweet red fruit flavors that linger nicely. Finishes long and bright, with plenty of fruity richness, a suave mouthfeel, and a hint of black pepper at the back. Another knockout wine from the Cantenac sector of Margaux, in my view perhaps the single most successful micro-production zone of the Left Bank in 2013. Rating: 88-91 Ian d'Agata - Stephen Tanzer website (May 2014)

Quite light and fresh on the nose the start of the palate has lots of bilberry and bramble. There are sweeter flavours in the middle but the tannins at the back are obvious closing down and tightening the finish. 2020-30 Rating: 86-88 Derek Smedley MW, www.dereksmedleymw.co.uk (May 2014)

Château Brane-Cantenac

Margaux Deuxième cru 1855 The estate was originally called Château Gorce after the family that owned it in he 18th Century, but the story really begins with its purchase by Baron Hector de Brane in 1833. Baron Hector was a well-known figure in the area, earning himself the nickname "Napoléon of the the Vines" and so keen was he to own Château Gorce that he sold Château Brane-Mouton in Pauillac to finance the purchase. Quite how much wisdom there was in ridding himself of the what was to become Château Mouton-Rothschild in order to secure the ownership of a slightly under-performing Second Growth property is debatable, but at the time the wines of the estate were consistently highly(ish) ranked. From the late 19th Century onward Brane-Cantenac followed a familiar Bordelais downward spiral. In 1920, it was purchased by the Societé des Grand Crus de France, owners of (among others) Château Margaux. In 1925, ownership passed to Léonce Récapet and his son-in-law François Lurton, but the real rennaissance of Brane-Cantenac came in 1956 when François' son - the great Lucien Lurton - took over. Today, his son Henri Lurton continues to run Château Brane-Cantenac. The period of Lurton ownership has been good to Brane-Cantenac, and the wines are consistent good performers although not really ranking alongside the best Second Growths of the Haut-Médoc, but this probably says more about the relevance of the 1855 classification than it does about the terroir and wines of Château Brane-Cantenac. Brane-Cantenac sits south-west of the village of Cantenac, next to Cantenac-Brown. There are 75ha of vineyard given over to 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, 4.5% Cabernet Franc and a very unusual 0.5% Carmenere. The Grand Vin spends 18 months in wood, of which 50% is new every year. The second wine is called Baron de Brane in honour of Baron Hector who put the estate on the map in the early 19th Century.

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