WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 855; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2012 which is 871. The average score for Château Branaire-Ducru is 910, making this a below 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 2012 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2012 but no other wine from Château Branaire-Ducru: Velvet, Rounded, Energy, Tight, Appealing, Backbone, Vigour, Defined, Strawberry, Soil. The wine will be ready to drink in 2 years (in 2018) and should be consumed within the next 14 years (by 2030). 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 Palmer 2012, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012; but better value alternatives would be Château Batailley 2014.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very good value for money, beating 70% of other wines when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château Branaire-Ducru 2012
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
27 |