Château Cantenac-Brown - Margaux 2009 (750ml)
Price: $130.00
| Producer | Château Cantenac-Brown |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Margaux |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2009 |
| Sku | 3789B |
| Size | 750ml |
Vinous: 93 Points
The 2009 Cantenac Brown repeats the solid showing six years ago. It has a clean and precise very focused bouquet with intense blackberry and bilberry fruit hints of sandalwood and mint emerging with time. This is very elegant. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin a fine bead of acidity taut and linear with real precision and grace towards the finish. Lovely touches of Asian spice linger on the aftertaste. What a superb Margaux. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners? 2009 Bordeaux tasting.
vmWine Spectator: 92 Points
This is perfumy and very pure with lovely lilac and blackberry aromas followed by plum cassis and black cherry fruit. The supple finish is caressed with toast that leaves a lingering perfumy feel. Best from 2013 through 2023. 8915 cases made.
Wine Enthusiast: 91 Points
Sweet, plummy wine, its tannins coming from spiced wood as much as fruit. There is a dry core, but the fruit is so opulent and ripe.
Vinous Media: 91 Points
Good deep red. Pretty cassis and floral aromas. Silky, subtle and fresh, with sound acidity framing the pungent dark berry and lightly herbal flavors. Very nicely balanced wine with an elegant finish featuring suave tannins, an intriguing saline quality and subtle persistence.
Wine Advocate: 90 Points
Tasted twice in Bordeaux I must say that whatever was shown to me in cask certainly did not appear to be performing as well from bottle. It could be just that the wine has closed down but I had thought this was an extraordinary wine and one of the big time sleepers of the vintage. The tannins have taken hold and although the wine is still outstanding any hopes of achieving a mid-90 point score as I had hoped seem highly questionable. Dense ruby/purple with notes of graphite blackberries and forest floor the wine is full-bodied powerful excruciatingly tannic and closed and that may be why it?s not showing as well as I predicted. Certainly this was the biggest discrepancy between barrel and bottle that I saw in the vintage but the wine is still outstanding just not profound. It will be interesting to revisit this wine in a number of years. Forget it for 7-8 years and drink it over the following 30.
