Chateau Branaire Ducru 2017

Bewertungen

• 94/100

  Wine Enthusiast
  An elegantly structured wine, this is both juicy and packed with tannins. Ripe berry flavors are equally prominent in this balanced wine. The wine's future is promising; drink from 2024. "

• 94/100

  Lisa Perrotti-Brown
  The Branaire-Ducru 2017 has a medium to deep garnet-purple color. It springs with savory notions of dried herbs, black olives, and beef drippings, over a core of cassis and black raspberries, plus a waft of cedar. Light to medium-bodied, the palate is tightly wound with black and red berry layers, supported by ripe, grainy tannins and bold freshness, finishing long and minerally."

• 93/100

  The Wine Cellar Insider
  On the fresh, lifted classic side, with good length, purity, elegance and polished tannins, the finish is clean, crisp and focused on this beautiful core of sweet, red fruits."

• 93/100

  Decanter
  Liquorice, cola, caramel, tobacco and black fruits, - some blue fruit hints too. Smooth and round, this has a lovely weight on the palate, supple and juicy. One of the Branaire vintages where you feel the weight on the palate, some you don't! The tension has dropped and this is starting to widen. It's delicate still, the St Julien elegance on show with an easy fruit-forwardness and super appealing sweetness. Joyful and lifted with hints of strawberry and red cherry and stone and graphite pulling you back to the terroir just at the end. No need to wait to long to start enjoying this as it's offering excellent drinkability right now."

• 92/100

  Wine Spectator
  A polished style, with a perfumed mesquite note draped over a core of plum and blackberry puree flavors. The finish lingers, with a mineral hint amid the fruit. Pure and aromatic. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Drink now through 2032. 15,000 cases made."

• 90-92/100

  Jeb Dunnuck
  The deep purple-colored 2017 Château Branaire-Ducru offers a fresh, focused, classic style in 2017. Beautiful spring flowers, black and blue fruits, and a kiss of minerality all emerge from this medium-bodied effort that has nicely integrated acidity, a balanced, clean texture, and plenty of mid-palate depth. My money is on this ending up being an outstanding wine."

• 91/100

  Falstaff
  Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung, verhalten, zarte schwarze Beerenfrucht, ein Hauch von Dörrobst, zart animalische Nuancen. Mittlerer Körper, rote Kirschen, feine Tannine, mineralischer Touch frisch strukturiert, ein lebendiger Speisenbegleiter."

• 91/100

  James Suckling
  Notes of raspberries and orange peel with tar on the nose and palate. Medium body, firm and silky tannins and a fresh, lively finish. Pleasing young red. Better after 2021."

• 16+/20

  Jancis Robinson
  Deep ruby-purple colour. Pure blackcurrant fruit with an edge of vanilla and cinnamon. Silky, plump fruit on the palate, there is a sense of easy ripeness here. Soft and fleshy, this is a moreish example that still has enough tannin to prop up the fruit and add needed bite. Should offer good drinking pleasure for a decade or more."

• 89/100

  The Wine Advocate
  Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2017 Branaire-Ducru gives up plum preserves, baked blackcurrants, kirsch and boysenberries with hints of earth, tobacco, herbs and pencil lead. Medium-bodied, the palate is fresh and clean with herbal sparks and a slight chew to the texture, finishing savory."