Château Branaire Ducru 2024, Saint-Julien
IN BOND
Delivery 2027/2028
Appellation - St Julien
Blend : 72% Cabernet Sauvignon - 22% Merlot - 3,5% Petit Verdot 2,5% Cabernet Franc
PH : 3,58
Yield : 41,5 hl/ha
Ageing : 18 months
ABV : 13%
About the Château
Vineyard : 57 hectares
Soil : Quaternary gravel
Grape varieties : 65% Cabernet-Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 3% Cabernet franc.
TASTING NOTES
The 2024 Branaire-Ducru offers up a pretty and precise bouquet of cassis, violets and pencil shavings. Medium-bodied, supple and suave, with polished tannins and tangy acids, it's a fine-boned, delicate wine from Branaire that was harvested between 20 September and 9 October. It's a blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot that attained 12.8% alcohol, and it's being raised in a touch less new oak than usual.
90/92
William Kelley, Wine Advocate, April 2025
