1978 Château Cantenac Brown

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 86.7 points

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  8/5/2021 - Michael Mackenzie wrote:

  After my note of 5/27/2021, this bottle was not good. Short on fruit and noticeably acid. A pity!

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  5/27/2021 - Michael Mackenzie Likes this wine: 88 Points

  This showed very well. Good fragrant, mature Margaux, dominated by the high CS% (65%?) v Merlot (35%?) .
  Colour: med brick red, thin rim, brown edge.
  Nose: opened up well and held for several hours, clearly Margaux with elegant ripe notes.
  Taste: med body, good ripe fruit, mature with long finish, soft and round.
  Overall, most enjoyable with the caveat that it should be drunk within a few hours of decanting. No ABV as not required on labels in those long past days...

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  6/23/2015 - Benj Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark almandine garnet with a more ruby core. Nose: beautifully perfumed, with violet, gently oxidized sour cherry, freshly baked golden cookies and a very appealing human/sexy sourly meaty note. Plus spiced wood and pencil shavings. Palate: delightfully juicy. High acidity, medium tannin, short to moderate length. Not a lot of fruit but not suffering from it at all. This is not a heavy hitter but it is exceptionally refreshing, gorgeously balanced and in very good condition. Gentle and seductive. My kind of wine. I doubt anyone else would rate this as highly as I do. £50.

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  5/4/2014 - Finare Vinare wrote: 82 Points

  Tasted blind. Medium/pale brownish brick red. Very advanced nose - rust and iodine, band-aid and mushrooms, red currants and old jelly, the volatility of age. The palate is out of balance, with a sharp acidity, faint and thin red fruit, tart tannins and an angular finish. Impossible to tell what it is, but perhaps more of a merlot/right bank wine, judging from the remaining fruit flavours? The only bummer of the five old bordeaux on the table. An off bottle, perhaps.

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  5/31/1997 - Zweder wrote: 81 Points

  Disappointing. Thin and acidic. Only in the far distance there is some class noticeable. Must be an off bottle, but I scored it nevertheless.

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