WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 854; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2014 which is 866. 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 2014 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2014 but no other wine from Château Branaire-Ducru: Scrawny, Persistence, Potential, Aging, Energetic, Serviceable, Ripening, Orange, Peel, Focused. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 12.81%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 2014 (12.5% vs 13.11%). 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 Lagrange (St Julien) 2009, Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Mouton Rothschild 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2014, Château Cos d’Estournel 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Batailley 2008, Château Gloria 2014, Château Haut-Batailley 2014.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very high value for money, beating 80% of other wines when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château Branaire-Ducru 2014
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-11-01 |
gbp |
24 |
| 2015-07-10 |
gbp |
24 |