Chateau Branaire-Ducru
Branaire-Ducru sits in Saint-Julien, and what the property is actually known for is consistency: a run of vintages that behave the same way, from a cellar rebuilt in the 1990s to move wine by gravity rather than pumps. The thing people get wrong is the ranking. Branaire-Ducru is a Fourth Growth, and Fourth Growth is read as fourth best. The 1855 classification sorted chateaux by the prices merchants were paying at the time. It was a market snapshot, not a tasting result, and it has never been revised.
The range divides into the grand vin, the second wine Duluc de Branaire-Ducru made from younger vines and separate plots, and a spread of vintages that runs from recent releases to bottles several decades old. Older bottles are sold on condition as much as on vintage.
Past a point, paying more buys rarity and provenance rather than flavour. A twenty-year-old bottle is a different experience, not a better glass of wine.
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Duluc De Branaire-Ducru 2021, St. Julien (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 2013 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 2011 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 2014 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru, St. Julien 2017 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 2016 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 1981 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 1998 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 1999 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 1999 (1x75cl)
Chateau Branaire Ducru 1983 (1x75cl)
Branaire Ducru - St. Julien 1959 (Label Damage, Low Level) (1x75cl)
Branaire Ducru - St. Julien 1914 (1x75cl)
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