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Brane Cantenac 2003

I had this wine recently at a wine tasting and had it again the other day when I visited a restaurant in St Germain en Laye outside Paris. Its a 2nd Grand Cru Classee and 2003 is an excellent year.

The colour is deep dark red with elegant wonderful boquet of flowers, vanilla, chocolate,dark berries. The wine which is still very young has a solid, big well balanced tannic
taste (merlot in perfect harmony with cabernet sauvignon). 

This is simply a great wine from a great year and would probably peak from 2010 and onwards....It is also reasonable for the quality and classification as its half the price at 28€  compared to others at the same level


Le Manege restaurant in St Germain had a very good selection of wines at prices at a more reasonable level than their equivalent in Paris. Excellent food as well.



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