Cantenac Brown other_regions_italy boysenberry

boysenberry

cool and unusually refined middle weight flavors deliver outstanding depth and length for the genre

The bouquet here is nuanced and delicate with an evident mineral signature that is followed by ever-increasingbut extremely elegant throughoutberry fruit and blue flower aromas

I suspect that it will not improve with further bottle age but should hold steady for another decade

41% Merlot

Cantenac Brown other_regions_italy boysenberryThe 2000 Cantenac Brown is a vintage that I last tasted just after bottling. It has a rather splendid bouquet that has matured beautifully with raspberry preserve, wild strawberry, dark chocolate and hints of rose petal, a touch of liquorice developing with aeration. The palate is perhaps showing its age a bit more with ferrous red fruit, grainy texture and a little sharpness towards the finish. But this is a typical, quite delicious mature Margaux