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Chateau Branaire-Ducru 2008

Red Wine
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Item# 1708-08

Product Ratings

Wine Advocate 91pt
Wine Enthusiast 93pt
Wine Spectator 91pt

Tasting Notes

The colour is dense and deep. The wine gives off both ripe and fresh fruit aromas.

Dense but elegant on the palate, it finishes with fine tannins, slowly matured by an exceptional autumn’s beginning, and on fresh hints showing a nice length.

Vineyard

Climate of the summer’s beginning - that means end of June, July and first decade of August - is wonderfully nice. Very low amount of rainfall allows a good drying of the soils.

In mid July many plots show a moderate hydric stress, in favour of the concentration and quality of grapes. The last two decades of August are more difficult: storms begin to worry us about the evolution of grapes.

Serenity comes back in the vineyards with September’s second decade: a very nice dry weather settles down until the end of the harvest. Thanks to this we can wait for a perfect maturation of the grapes, even on the latest plots. Fruits evolute slowly but the magnificent end of the season makes it possible for the grapes to ripen deeply flavors and tannins.

Harvest

Harvest begins on September 30th. The early Merlots are picked in three days by a small team. We stop during three days and the late Merlots are harvested on October 6th and 7th. The picking of the Cabernet Sauvignons starts on 9th and finishes on 15th of October.