Andreas Larsson - Tasted

Pure and ripe nose with floral dark fruit, violet, cassis, plum, tobacco, Fine leather and discreet oak. Dense and savoury with grainy tannin, coffee, mocha, light toastiness with crushed black fruit, crème de cassis, and a very long lingering finish with bright freshness and savoury dark fruit with some sage and roasted notes, elegant and powerful. Very good.

Wine Enthusiast

This firm, structured wine is solid with tannins and with the weight associated with the vintage. The fruitiness is as important, an explosion of rich berry flavors that will give pleasure as the wine matures. Drink from 2025.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2016 Brane-Cantenac is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc and 1% Carmenere picked from 22 September until 17 October (the tiny parcel of Carmenere picked three days later). The yields came in at 51 hectoliters per hectare and it is matured in 75% new oak and 25% one-year-old barrels, the final alcohol level 13.3%. It has a beautifully defined, very detailed bouquet with mineral-rich black fruit laced with cedar and graphite notes, living up to its nom de plume as the

Adrian van Velsen - vvWine.ch