Duluc de Branaire-Ducru 2016, Saint-Julien

A single bottle of Branaire's second wine from a great year. The cheapest serious claret I can put in your hand. This is the second wine of Chatetau Branaire-Ducru. Same family, different character. If elegance is always the order of the day, Duluc de Branaire-Ducru offers a more playful, more voluble expression but always in a spirit of excellence and purity. This is an accessible wine even in its youngest years. With a good character and well-bred, Duluc de Branaire-Ducru is also a wine for laying down that never takes offense at being forgotten in the cellar. And we always recognize in it the inimitable mark of the "House Signature" of Branaire-Ducru. This is no coincidence. The legendary 2016 vintage, the vines were awakened by a cool and humid spring. The dry and sunny start of summer saw the vines bloom. There was very little rain that summer, the perfect conditions were met to color the berries, enrich them and slowly refine the tannins. A spell of rain at the end of the season perfected the maturation for the harvest, just in time! The nose of the Duluc de Branaire-Ducru 2016 reveals a beautiful complexity of aromas and very fine red fruits, the purity of which is reinforced by elegant floral aromas. On aeration, more spicy notes subtly enrich an ensemble that shows a beautiful freshness. The mouth, very round from the attack, offers a beautiful fleshiness and an already pleasant suppleness. It develops on a tannic framework of great finesse. A beautiful liveliness accompanies the long and aromatic finish.