Community Tasting Notes 18

• M. Schmid Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 2, 2023 - Beatiful bordeaux, but rather on the light side and the fruit is only subtle. I like it with food and without decant. Drink up until 2024-2025

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• Robwild Likes this wine: 89 points

  September 17, 2021 - Earthy barnyard nose. Tabaco, vanilla, pencil shaving, and Oak. Fading tannins. Was obviously a treat in its prime but now past its time. Drink up.

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• DrZett wrote: 87 points

  September 4, 2021 - Stable, some tobacco and lots of earthy notes. The little dark fruit which was left was fading fast. Still enjoyable but past its prime. Drink up now. (IG)

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• glou.sf Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 29, 2021 - Leather, red cassis, mushrooms, tobacco, and a slightly dusty note on the nose. Quite acidic with integrated tannins, iron, and some red fruit flavors. Good finish. This is fully mature and I don’t think it’s going to improve from here, but the wine is pleasure to drink. A bit lighter style of Bordeaux, especially for 86.

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• pavel_p Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 12, 2020 - 4 years since I last had this wine, and luckily this is a perfect bottle. In neck/bottle neck fill, clean and dry top of cork with only the bottom third soaked. Slow ox’ed for about 30 min. Still a dark garnet with a fairly wide translucent rim, no browning. Great showing, a touch of cedar on the attack, then iron and rich deep dark fruit integrated with tobacco notes, a touch of sweetness perhaps hinting at Margaux but overall more Pauillac than Margaux in style in 86, fine to medium tannins still providing a solid structure. Medium finish. I love 86 Bordeaux.
  A very solid 93 and the fruit in good bottles like this will easily last another 10 years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1986
• Type Red
• Producer Château Brane-Cantenac
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Margaux

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• In Cellars 91 (58%)
• Consumed 66 (42%)

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