Chateau Branaire Ducru
Producer profile
Listed Wines
Chateau Branaire Ducru
Owner
Maroteaux family
President
15,000 cases
Annual Production (Grand Vin)
Fourth Growth
Appellation
St-Julien
Second Wine
Duluc de Branaire-Ducru
Interesting Fact
The estate makes an appearance in Roald Dahl’s short story ‘Taste’, where character Richard Pratt wins his beloved’s hand in marriage by correctly identify a wine offered to him by his host. The wine? 1934 Branaire-Ducru, which Pratt describes as: “Demure and bashful in the first taste, emerging shyly but quite graciously in the second.”
