Friday, 11 January 2013

Chateau Cantenac Brown


I gave my nephew a bottle of this for his 21st birthday: it was the only claret I've got from his birth year, having bought a case some years before and also having drunk most of the case. Chateau Cantenac Brown is a 3rd growth chateau in Margaux. Actually the parent estate (Boyd) was classified as the third growth estate, but this subsequently became divided into Boyd-Cantenac and Cantenac Brown. Most of Boyd became Boyd-Cantenac and Cantenac Brown was assembled from a number of vineyards cleaved from the Boyd estate. It was only after a successful legal battle in the late 19th century that Cantenac Brown became recognized as a third growth.


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