Red · Margaux · France
Château Brane-Cantenac Margaux (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 6,520 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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Tasting profile
A mature, elegant Bordeaux showing brick-red color with aromas of strawberry, cassis, cigar box, leather, and lead pencil over a classic earthy core. The palate is smooth and refined, with soft cassis fruit and a long finish marked by toffee, caramel, and chocolate notes.
Synthesized from 6,520Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“A 40 year old Margaux, musty organic nose hint of strawberry a long soft cassis taste finish of toffee and chocolate a great present for our 40th anniversary.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Brane-Cantenac Margaux (Grand Cru Classé) is a French red from Margaux. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $99.50, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,133 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 6,520 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 6,668 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Château Brane-Cantenac Margaux (Grand Cru Classé) lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · France (1,134 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 6,520.
