2025 Brane Cantenac

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 202!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Margaux; 80% Cabernet Sauvignon; 18% Merlot; 1% Carménère; 1% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 32.2 hl/ha; pH 3.62; 13.3% alcohol; 12% press wine; tasted twice, first at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and then with Christophe Capdeville at Brane Cantenac). Look out for the special centennial label to mark 100 years of the Lurton family's ownership. This is divine aromatically and yet also delivers an incredible density and compactness in the mid-palate that only Brane seems to be able to achieve with this much clarity, finesse, elegance and precision. There's a gentle and very natural sweetness to the aromatics. This is a wine of a paradoxical brilliance given the constrast between its staggering freshness and the climatic conditions from which it was forged. The floral notes are delicate and subtle - lily of the valley, perhaps a littee mimosa and iris. There's a touch of incense too. Brane Cantenac in 2025 is texturally sublime, with an amazing sensation of layering and a dynamic freshness that seems to well up from below very naturally. Quite simply, this is a triumph.
96-98/100 Colin Hay

Château Brane-Cantenac in the 2025 vintage brings together the ripeness of a hot year and the clarity of a cooler one. As I taste it, I find myself instinctively slowing down. Its naturally firm structure, in this vintage, transforms into layers of flowing, clouds, elusive yet present, seeming distant yet quietly guiding your path forward. Bright acidity and juicy bayberry glide across the palate, like a mountain breeze passing through the forest, leading me into a serene and secluded landscape. Through the finish, its concentration gradually reveals itself, like ink meeting the stone, gently spreading and infusing the palate with each breath. What lingers in the end is not merely flavor, but a state of mind: composed, self-contained, and untouched by the noise of the world.
96-98/100 Alexandre Ma

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Brane-Cantenac springs from the glass with spritely notes of blackberries and red currants, followed by underlying hints of lilacs, black olives, crushed rocks, and wild sage. The medium-bodied palate is light on its feet and racy with firm, grainy tannins and vibrant black and red berry flavors, plus a long mineral-laced finish. The blend is 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Carmenère. It has a pH of 3.62 and the alcohol is 13.3%.
95-97/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

This is luscious and full of wonderfully bright fruits, great concentration, cushion of air underneath, high Cabernet and it comes through in the floral aromatics, clearly a plentiful tannic structure but luscious and layered damson and black cherry. Yes yes yes. 12.10% press wine. 3.62 pH. Tasted twice. 100 years of the Lurtons at Brane.
97/100 Jane Anson