Château Branaire-Ducru 2002

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WineMine Description

MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 932; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2002 which is 875. The average score for Château Branaire-Ducru is 908, making this an above average effort for the producer.

When people talk about wines from Château Branaire-Ducru they use words like Tannin, Fruit, Elegant, Ripe, Purple, Oak, Full, Dark, Sweet, Ruby, Attractive, Acidity, Tannins, Raspberry, Black. The 2002 shares all of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2002 but no other wine from Château Branaire-Ducru: Endowed, Intertwined, Creme, Cranberries, Mocha. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 12.81%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2002 (12.5% vs 12.79%). It normally takes wines from Château Branaire-Ducru around 5 years to be ready to start drinking, and 11 further years to decline.

It represents good value compared to Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2005, Château Margaux 2005, Château Montrose 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Léoville-Poyferré 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2012, Château Gloria 2010, Château Canon 2012, Château La Dame de Montrose 2003, Château Cantemerle 2011.

MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers average value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.

Similarity Score	Wine	Price Difference
37	Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2005	73%
37	Château Margaux 2005	1587%
36	Château Montrose 2005	956%
35	Les Forts de Latour 2005	284%
35	Château Pontet-Canet 2005	219%
34	Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010	197%
34	Château Mouton Rothschild 2005	3069%
33	Château Lafite Rothschild 2004	1753%
33	Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010	197%
33	Château Lynch-Bages 2005	205%
33	Château Latour 2004	956%
33	Château Latour 2003	1793%
33	Château Pontet-Canet 2011	317%
33	Château Palmer 2005	498%
32	Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010	66%
32	Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005	164%
32	Château Haut-Bailly 2009	554%
32	Château Lynch-Bages 2010	223%
32	Château Lynch-Bages 1996	249%
32	Château Latour 2005	1642%
32	Château Cheval Blanc 2006	805%
32	Château Calon-Ségur 2005	95%
32	Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010	66%
32	Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009	25%
32	Château Lafite Rothschild 2008	1674%
32	Château Mouton Rothschild 2010	1909%
32	Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005	164%
32	Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2007	329%
32	Château L’Eglise-Clinet 2011	131%
31	Château Cos d’Estournel 2007	31%
31	Château Canon 2012	7%
31	Château Lynch-Bages 2011	103%
31	Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009	25%
31	Château Lafite Rothschild 2010	1534%
31	Château Malescot St Exupéry 2005	21%
31	Château Giscours 2005	127%
31	Château La Dame de Montrose 2003	-30%
31	Château Montrose 2010	238%
31	Château Montrose 2009	337%
31	Château Cantemerle 2011	-56%

Date	Currency	Price
2015-07-10	gbp	41