Chateau Branaire-Ducru Saint-Julien 1996 NO20231115 but is sourced from old

but is sourced from old vines

with character

From the producer: Originating in Mexico

raspberry jam

Dark chocolate

Chateau Branaire-Ducru Saint-Julien 1996 NO20231115 but is sourced from oldBranaire Ducru has long been the connoisseur's Saint Julien Fourth Growth pricing, classical winemaking, no flash. The 1996 vintage is now thirty years old and squarely in mature territory, made in one of those classic cool vintage years where ripe Cabernet held onto bracing Left Bank acidity. The result is everything you'd want from a fully resolved Mdoc: cedar, tobacco, dried red and black fruit, leather, and that beam of acidity keeping it lively.