Brio de Cantenac-Brown 2016  – Margaux

The nose is fruity, fresh and offers a beautiful elegance as well as precision. It reveals delicate/slight notes of ripe/fresh blackberry and slight notes of ripe raspberry, flowers associated with slight hints of blueberry as well as slight notes of licorice and spices. The palate is fruity, elegant, racy, well-balanced, juicy and offers a beautiful finesse, a beautiful acid frame, tension, a beautiful freshness, a certain straightness, a beautiful “guideline”. In the mouth this wine expresses notes of ripe/fresh blackberry, fresh/ripe raspberry and hints of strawberry, cassis associated with slight hints of fresh red berries, licorice, sweet spices (discreet). Tannins are fine, elegant and slightly creamy. Good length. The finish is a bit suave and reveals a small hint of almost salin minerality on the finish.