Community Tasting Note

• englishman's claret wrote: 94 points

  June 6, 2022 - The 2005 Brane Cantenac is an impressive wine, even if it is only making overtures into early maturity. There’s beautiful mixed berry fruit here, mostly dark, with a mineral streak, developing potpourri, and a hint of freshly-ground coffee. The inner mouth perfume is really gorgeous - and perfume is the right word given the violet and lavender that simply coats the palate and lingers on the finish. The tannins are velvety and reasonably sophisticated from a vintage that can produce some large-framed wines.
  
  Drinking in earnest from 2025 on, but if broached now it should be decanted for several hours.
  
  93-95
  
  NB a second bottle from the same case was identical in promise, offering a little more immediate pleasure.

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