Branaire Ducru 2011 周伯通 (12x75cl OWC)

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By Tim Atkin in 2012 (TA92)
One of the more concentrated St Juliens of the vintage: thick, dense and pretty serious. The wine teeters on the edge of over-extraction, but there’s enough violet-scented fruit and concentration to soak up the tannins. 10+ years.

By Wine Advocate in 2022 (WA92+)
An underrated wine that has shed its youthful austerity to offer terrific drinking today, the 2011 Branaire-Ducru exhibits aromas of sweet cassis, loamy soil, cigar wrapper and classy new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated palate framed by powdery tannins and lively acids. On release, it was far from apparent that this would emerge as a charming classic, but in a blind tasting, I mistook it for the estate’s 2010.Drink Date 2021 – 2045