1959 Château Brane-Cantenac

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  7/5/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points

  The nose, with its bouquet of flowers, cigar box, cherries, cedar and wet earth could keep any taster busy. Medium-bodied, bordering on light, the wine is elegant, refined and silky, with sweet red berries, earth and cigar wrapper on the palate and in the finish. This is a text-book example of what a pretty wine tastes and feels like. It is not going to develop from here, but if it's well stored, it should continue providing pleasure for up to a decade from here.

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  5/9/2019 - BouzyRouge Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Mid shoulder fill. Dull garnet robe fading to tan rim. Flowery/woody nose with cedar box, lilac, rose, and pipe tobacco. On the palate nicely balanced with medium acidity and flavors of blackberry, earth, and leaves. Harmoniously complementary fine tannins with a finish reminiscent of Darjeeling tea. Wonderfully drinkable. Clearly fading, but very pretty even in its decline.

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  12/28/2018 - Goodwine4ever wrote: 90 Points

  Dégus au AVV L'État-Major. Nez très terreux exactement comme j'aime les vieux vins, petit fruit rouge, en bouche c'est bien, peu de fruits mais juste ce qu'il faut pour que je l'apprécie, acidité moyenne, longueur correct, un vin en fin de vie mais tout de même bien agréable a mon gout !

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  11/21/2016 - PSPatrick wrote: 91 Points

  “Bordeaux 1959 – 2014 (blind)”, flight 4, wine 4. The wine was medium garnet in colour, with watery edges. It offered dark fruit, marzipan, tobacco, mushroom and earthy notes on the nose and palate, with medium-plus acidity and tannin and very good length. Tasted blind this wine was overshadowed by the previous wine in this flight (an otherworldy bottle of 1983 Château du Tertre), but once revealed as 1959 this good old boy earned by my respect for having defied time. Drink now.

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  12/25/2010 - DVHK wrote:

  First experience with Brane Cantenac, and wowh this is 1959! So far the oldest red wine "given" to me to taste. So much has been said about this vintage. At the opening the cork completely spread out. The wine shows a clear orange color. On the nose and on the palate, nothing to say...the wine has definitely past its prime!

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