1969 Château Brane-Cantenac

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  10/16/2022 - RM Scholten Likes this wine: 90 Points

  What a great wine after so manny years and yes you need to like the taste of older wines. They have more earth, leather, but are therefore smoother on tannines. Stil nice red fruits in the mode and on the pallet a good balance. Let him breath and it gets even better. PS: don‘t drink a brunello afterwards :-)

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  7/6/2014 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points

  Still showing weighty sweet fruit with tasty semi sweet cranberries and maybe even some lingon berries. Touch of sweet flower petals that gave it away as a Margaux which most guessed correctly once revealed as a Bordeaux.

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  7/5/2014 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points

  Lazy Afternoon at Alex's (Alex and Fiona's in AMK): I feared for the wine on first sniff - it smelt old and tired, with Chinese herbs and sultanas at the forefront, chased by deeper plums and a flush of tobacco alongside. The palate was still very alive and very enjoyable though, with lovely juicy acidity running through sweet notes of cassis, flowers and spice, along with a slight earthiness at the finish. Still lots of lovely bright fruit I thought, with only a slight edge of dried sultanas and a complete lack of tannins marking out its age. It lacked some complexity, especially given its age, but this was very enjoyable. Good time to drink now.

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  3/1/2014 - Hecht_Pede wrote: 84 Points

  my last bottle, love the nose after some air but not alot going on in the palate

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  10/17/2011 - cosmin_grozea wrote: 89 Points

  While it had a low fill level, the wine had no fault. Red garnet with an orange meniscus, slightly oxidized. A well developed and mature nose, showing plenty of tertiary aromas, but still preserving some of the primary red fruit. There is a beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon typicality, with big green vegetables aromas: asparagus and green bell pepper mixed with cigar box, burnt charcoal, truffles, subdued red currant, earth and coffee bean. Medium bodied and well structured, with dissolved tannins and red currant flavors mixed with mocha, tobacco, graphite and a lively palate. Medium finish, with pleasant light green coffee bean bitterness. The wine is not a blockbuster, but has charm and elegance. While it already had its peak and is now going downhill, the wine can still go on in this phase for more years. It should however be drank sooner than later. (89/100)

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