Château Branaire-Ducru 2024

Characteristics and tasting advice for Château Branaire-Ducru 2024

Tasting

Nose
The nose, fine and precise, reveals a beautiful aromatic richness carried by ripe fruits.

Palate
On the palate, the wine seduces with its roundness, suppleness and aromatic relief. The aging, still discreet, elegantly underlines melted and refined tannins, revealing the dry and qualitative conditions of the heart of the summer.

A full-bodied and refined Saint-Julien wine

The property

Grand Cru Classé in 1855, the Château Branaire-Ducru is one of the big names of the Saint-Julien appellation. Owned by François Xavier Maroteaux, the son of the late Patrick Maroteaux, and managed by Jean-Dominique Videau, Château Branaire-Ducru offers, vintage after vintage, a superb expression of this great terroir on the left bank of Bordeaux with crus recognized for their elegance, their velvety texture on the palate and their consistency.

The vineyard

Château Branaire-Ducru is a Saint-Julien wine from a 60-hectare vineyard. The vines, which are on average 35 years old (but some are centenarian), are planted on Quaternary gravel-siliceous alluvial soils, recognized as one of the warmest terroirs in the region allowing late grape varieties to develop ensuring perfect phenolic maturation.

The vintage

The winter is mild and exceptionally rainy, leading to very early bud break. Mildew develops virulently from April, requiring rigorous monitoring. The return of cooler temperatures slows down the vine, and flowering takes place normally. The dry summer favors the quality of the tannins, despite rains at the end of August that slow down maturation, relaunched by a dry period in mid-September.

Blend

Cabernet sauvignon (72 %)
Merlot (22 %)
Cabernet franc (3.5 %)
Petit verdot (2.5 %).