Chateau Branaire-Ducru Saint-Julien 1996 bis-hidden and full of various ripe

and full of various ripe fruits

The result is a bourbon with less spice

long finish

A single cask rum matured and bottled in Scotland

They farm old bush vines organically and biodynamically on chalky limestone

Chateau Branaire-Ducru Saint-Julien 1996 bis-hidden and full of various ripeBranaire 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.