Brio - Margaux 2019

Brio - Margaux 2019

BriO de Cantenac Brown is a charming, delicate, bright wine. The chateau’s signature can thus be summarized in two words: flesh and tension.

THE ORIGNIS
Witness of the Scottish origins of its founder John-Lewis Brown, the emblem of Cantenac Brown is its remarkable Tudor style chateau and belongs today to the Le Lous family.

THE POWER OF THE EARTH
The 60 hectares of vines surrounding the château are spread over the prestigious plateaus of Margaux and Cantenac.
Cantenac Brown unveiled its project last year a new zero-carbon cellar made of raw earth (2023)

2019 VINTAGE : 
"The 2019 year started under the rain with warm winter temperatures. As a consequence, the budburst took place 15 days sooner than usual. Flowering happened with slightly low temperatures and few rainy days caused flower abortion and millerandage. On the other hand, these precipitations were beneficial at the beginning of summer and helped us to handle July’s temperatures. During veraison, the sudden dryness locked some berries; we will sort them with manual harvest or with the optical sorting table.
The end of summer was cooler allowing the vineyard to rest. Some showers at the beginning of September arrived right on time to swell the berries … and our hopes. The harvest date of each plot is the key for this vintage. Regarding the choices we made during the season (leaf removal, plots’ age, soil composition, weather condition …), harvest choice is also crucial and requires a daily control in the vines. Each day, we walk miles and taste hundreds of berries in order to establish the harvest plan adapted to our plots.
We harvested the whites while keeping an eye on the reds! So fresh mornings the first days of September were perfect for two
reasons: the white of Cantenac Brown had been harvested in perfect conditions and in the meantime the ripeness of the red grapes evolved phenomenally. Since the first analysis, merlot and cabernet sauvignon show remarkable polyphenols. The first harvest day was set on September 18th for the youngest vines. Enough time to get the team ready and then wait until the end of the month to harvest the great merlot and beginning of October for the cabernet sauvignon."