Chateau Branaire-Ducru Saint-Julien 1996 GERAUS 40% Pinot Noir

40% Pinot Noir

Whether sipped neat over ice

with notes of lemon zest

What started as the “Intern Project Chardonnay” in 2012 has culminated into a sparkling wine that is a blend of every vintage we have produced

capped off with a few cm of clay

Chateau Branaire-Ducru Saint-Julien 1996 GERAUS 40% Pinot NoirBranaire 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.