2017 Château Cantenac Brown, Margaux, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (67%), Merlot (33%)
Ready - youthful (Drink 2022 - 2039)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
90-92/100
James Suckling
92-93/100
Product: 20178006794

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2017 Château Cantenac Brown, Margaux, Bordeaux

Description

Ch. Cantenac Brown was fortunate this year in that it escaped much of the frost. The 2017 is a blend of 67 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 33 percent Merlot aged 60 percent in new barrels and 40 percent in one-year-old barrels. Very dark opaque purple colour with notes of compact dark fruit and violets. Suave and elegant on the palate with silky tannins finishing with a bright, fresh style.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2017
Maturity Ready - youthful (2022 - 2039)
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (67%), Merlot (33%)
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château Cantenac Brown

Critics reviews

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 90-92/100
With a larger proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon this year, the blend is 67% Cabernet Sauvignon and 33% Merlot. Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2017 Cantenac Brown leaps from the glass with exuberant notes of cassis, warm plums and black forest cake with touches of violets, dark chocolate, cloves and cigar box plus a waft of lavender. The palate is medium-bodied and firm with fine-grained tannins and tons of freshness, finishing with plenty of black fruit and perfumed layers.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Apr 2018)
James Suckling 92-93/100
This is a very pretty cabernet sauvignon with currants, raspberries and blueberries. Bright and vivid. Medium to full body, firm and silky tannins and a fresh and clean finish.
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Jan 2018)

About this wine

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
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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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Chateau Cantenac Brown

Cantenac-Brown, a 3ème Cru Classé estate, is located in the Haut-Medoc wine appellation on the western extremes of the Margaux appellation. As with so many Bordeaux estates, the tale of the last 120 years focuses on early years of problems, caused by both vineyard diseases and economic depradations, followed by recent revival once the property has been bought by someone with the means to invest properly in its future. The revitalisation of Cantenac-Brown only really looked a realistic possibility with its acquisition in by AXA Millésimes in 1989. The AXA team, led at that time by the since semi-retired Jean-Michel Cazes, with the help of Daniel Llose and under the direction of Christian Seely, began to turn the estate around. The team had a history of success in Bordeaux, not least at Lynch-Bages but at other estates such as Pichon-Baron, Suduiraut and Quinta do Noval. 
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