The 2022 Château Brane-Cantenac opens with a tightly wound bouquet that gradually reveals layers of blackberry, crushed stone, peony, and cracked black pepper. On the palate, it is medium-bodied with finely chiseled tannins, offering a precise and focused structure. The wine showcases a harmonious balance of rich black fruits, tobacco, and spice, culminating in a powerful, long-lasting finish. This vintage exemplifies the elegance and depth characteristic of Brane-Cantenac's Margaux terroir.
Lovely bright youthful colour on release at 18 months. Fragrant almost floral aromas coupled with soft vanillin and red fruit on entry. The French oak is very much in the background, however adds enough flavour to give great complexity and length. A classic medium bodied Shiraz with fine, long tannins to the end.
Saignee, technically meaning “to bleed game meat or poultry”, refers to the way we ‘bleed’ juice for this wine. We allow the Farr Rising pinot noir fruit to sit in tank for two to three hours before bleeding free-run juice at a suitable colour for rosé production. This process concentrates the pinot ferment, but we also produce a barrel-fermented rosé. Natural barrel fermentation at cool temperatures is followed by full malolacitc fermentation. The wine is then placed in four- and five-year-old barrels for 10 months before being filtered and bottled.
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