Château Cantenac-Brown Margaux 3. Cru Classé 2016

"This is a top-flight Margaux" - Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider 

Anmeldelser Château Cantenac-Brown Margaux 3. Cru Classé 2016

95/100 Decanter
"Poised and precise, this is excellent quality with well-defined black fruits. It feels like the fruit is ripe but not overly so, carefully delineated by great freshness and touches of slate, rosemary and dark chocolate. The extremely precise nose slowly reveals itself, gaining in power. I loved this en primeur and it's even more striking today. A great job by the Cantenac Brown team"

94/100 James Suckling
"This has a very delicious and attractive nose offering ample dark berries and plums with cocoa and freshly cut bracken. The palate has a smooth, fan-like array of fine but sturdy tannins that carry very fresh and upbeat into the finish."

94/100 Wine Enthusiast
"Richly structured, this dense wine has solid tannins that balance with the black fruits. It is a complex wine, poised and confident while not los-ing sight of the Margaux elegance."

92-94/100 Robert Parker
"This is certainly equal to the impressive 2015 Cantenac Brown."

93+/100 Jeb Dunnuck
"Black cherries, currants, smoke tobacco, graphite, and hints of earth all emerge from this beautifully layered, medium-bodied, and concentrated 2016 that shines for its purity and precision, while still offering beautiful depth of fruit."

93/100 Vinous
"Do not ignore this."

93/100 Wine Spectator
"Quite dark in profile, with steeped boysenberry, raspberry and blackberry compote flavors forming a core that is coiled up with bramble, singed mesquite and anise notes. Lots of juicy energy through the finish, with a mouthwatering streak of graphite. Rock-solid."

Bag om Château Cantenac Brown

Cantenac-Brown er berømt for sin bizarre slotsbygning, som den skotske maler John Lewis Brown bygede i traditionel Tudorstil. Slottet har navn efter samme Brown og efter sin hjemkommune.

Rent vinmæssigt var Cantenac Brown frem til 1990 ikke Cru Classé værdig. Siden har investeringslystne AXA Millésimes og fra 2006 den nuværende ejer, familien Simon Halabi, løftet kvaliteten år for år.

Beplantningstætheden på hele 10.000 planter pr. ha. giver færre, mindre og mere smagsintense druer, som teknisk direktør Jose Sanfins med dygtighed formår at omsætte til vin og ratings i absolut verdensklasse.