Community Tasting Note

englishman's claret wrote:

Sunday, November 12, 2023 - The 2009 Branaire-Ducru is a gorgeous wine, a fact obvious as soon as it's poured into the decanter. The nose spans a spectrum of red fruit - cherry, raspberry, and strawberry - voluptuous yet elegant (as always, at Branaire). Allspice, rose, and cedar round out the nose, which shows so many of the positive attributes of a warm year in terms of its accessibility, volume, creaminess, and plush textures. This coin has two sides, though, and palate hints at the difficulty of such a year as the alcohol - labeled at 13.5% - pokes through slightly. It's not terribly out of balance, but it does hold the wine back from really soaring as some 2009s do. This shows well as soon as it is poured, shutting down with 30 minutes-3 hours of air, re-emerging by hour 12 and showing nicely still at hour 24 (if the nose is less articulate, the palate is more so). In about 5 years, I expect to find this wine fully ready.

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