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Chateau Cantenac Brown Grand Cru Classé

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Chateau Cantenac Brown Grand Cru Classé

750mL

Tasted twice in Bordeaux, I must say that whatever was shown to me in cask certainly did not appear to be performing as well from bottle. It could be just that the wine has closed down, but I had thought this was an extraordinary wine and one of the big time sleepers of the vintage. The tannins have taken hold, and although the wine is still outstanding, any hopes of achieving a mid-90 point score, as I had hoped, seem highly questionable. Dense ruby/purple with notes of graphite, blackberries and forest floor, the wine is full-bodied, powerful, excruciatingly tannic and closed, and that may be why it's not showing as well as I predicted. Certainly, this was the biggest discrepancy between barrel and bottle that I saw in the vintage, but the wine is still outstanding, just not profound. It will be interesting to revisit this wine in a number of years. Forget it for 78 years and drink it over the following 30.

Country

France

Region

Bordeaux

Vintage

2009

Grape Variety

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc

Awards

Robert Parker 90 points

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