2022 Branaire-Ducru, St-Julien
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Chris Kissack
Reviewed April 2025The nose here is dark, dense and brooding, with slowly revealed scents of blackberry, coffee bean, liquorice and leathery toast. And this immediately translates onto a velvety palate, filled out with superb spine-tingling texture, and carrying notes of black fruits and toasty complexity like the nose. Beautiful tannins here, melting into the wine, all dark chocolate and toast. This is a superb Branaire-Ducru, and is clearly one of the greatest of modern vintages. Stunning.
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Decanter
This impressed during En Primeur and totally delivers on a promise of freshness, charm and drinkability. Juicy and succulent with the clean and crystalline fruit at the fore. Tannins meld seamlessly into the wine with only a hint of bitter chocolate and liquorice spice on the finish giving nuance. Layered and shiny - down plays the vintage in terms of concentration - this is sleek and glossy. Polished and well crafted. A tiny bit shy still - this will age very well - but also feels as if you could start to enjoy this soon. Wonderful. (GH)
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Jeb Dunnuck
Darker currants, leafy herbs, graphite, tobacco, and subtle orange zest-like nuances all emerge from the 2022 Château Branaire-Ducru, a ripe, concentrated, flawlessly balanced Saint-Julien. With medium to full-bodied richness, a concentrated, layered mouthfeel, and plenty of tannins, it's another no-brainer of a 2022 that readers will love to have in their cellar. The 2022 is 60.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31.5% Merlot, 5.5% Cabernet Franc, and the balance Petit Verdot, aged 18 months in oak.
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Jane Anson
As ever an understated classified wine, not pushing too far even among the exuberance of 2022, instead delivering fragrant, peony-laced cassis fruits laced with slate and graphite. An exceptional example of this property. Owner François-Xavier Maroteaux.
Notes
Ranked a Fourth Growth in the 1855 classification, this Saint-Julien estate has been owned by the Maroteaux family since 1988. Its gravel vineyards favor Cabernet Sauvignon, and a gravity-flow cellar allows the team to move fruit and wine with minimal pumping.
Details
| Type | Red Wine |
|---|---|
| Varietal | Cabernet Sauvignon and Blends |
| Origin | Saint Julien, Bordeaux, France |
| Bottle Size | 750 mL |
| SKU | 1832680 |