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2014 Château Brane-Cantenac, Margaux, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (77%), Merlot (21%), Cabernet Franc (2%)
Ready - youthful
Product: 20148003243
2014 Château Brane-Cantenac, Margaux, Bordeaux

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.

Drink 2024 - 2035

Charlie Geoghegan DipWSET, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2014
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (77%), Merlot (21%), Cabernet Franc (2%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Brane-Cantenac

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 Brane-Cantenac

Château Brane-Cantenac was for many years the home of Lucien Lurton - it is now owned and run by his son Henri. Its vineyards are located west of the village of Cantenac in the Margaux appellation. Brane-Cantenac's vineyards are planted with Cabernet Sauvignon (55%), Merlot (40%), Cabernet Franc (4.5%) and Carmenère 0,5%,  and lie on fine, gravelly soils. Vinification includes up to 18 months' wood ageing, a third to a half in new `barriques'.
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