Saint Julien

The 2016 Duluc de Branaire-Ducru is a soft, fruity wine to drink now and over the next few years, while the red/purplish berry fruit and floral notes retain their youthful vibrancy.

Tasted blind. Deep ruby. Wild-berry fruit on the nose. Succulent black fruit on the palate. Very chunky, with firm and drying tannins on the back end. Lacking a little fruit to match the burly structure. Warming finish....(read more)

Lovely developed rich nose, very pure. Some genuine richness, round, layered. Dense with purple fruit. Tannic but in a nicely crunchy way and still juicy at the end. Quite high-toned, it has natural drive and is juicy an...(read more)

58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, 6% Cabernet Franc. 13.7% Alc. To say I was confused by Poyferré is an understatement. At the Château it showed the usual dark purple-edged colour, very de...(read more)

Much darker fruit expression than its stablemate Gloria, more cassis, very black, very massive and broad-shouldered, still with good acidity and and impressive ripe brightness. I think this is the best St Pierre I've eve...(read more)

Like the Fiefs, Cabernet dominates. Classic, tight and straight, but with a richness of texture and velvety feel, and still a considerable freshness of fruit. Really excellent, and the spice of wood that the carefully ma...(read more)

A yield of 47 hl/ha, 54% new wood. Sampled from a new barrel, but what comes through is the directness and purity of the fruit, on nose and attack, linear cassis and cherry, succulent and lovely. Silkily textured, but th...(read more)

Serious stuff. Very deep colour, intense, full and complete, a ‘gentle giant’. Nose full, pure and firm. A solid ball of dense flavour - superball density. Very complete, all textures of tannins from fierce to finest. Ve...(read more)

Delicious. Rich and poised. Attractive, succulent and well spiced nose - leads to a really well shaped, concentrated mouthful. Rich and broad, loaded with ripe blackberries and firm plum flesh - but with a line of bright...(read more)

78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot. Not massively dark - a deep ruby. Rich as it hits the palate, a real opulence, quite flashy even. Spicy complexity, well done! Very ripe, the tannins build, and are quite drying, but t...(read more)