Chateau Branaire Ducru 1999 (1x75cl)

Chateau Branaire-Ducru sits in Saint-Julien on Bordeaux's left bank, and this 1999 has more than 25 years in bottle. Please read that as the main thing about it: mature Bordeaux is its own experience, quieter and more savoury than a young vintage, and bottles of this age do vary from one to the next. We can't promise the condition of any single bottle.

If that's what you're after, it's a bottle for a birth-year dinner, an older drinker who remembers the decade, or a small table that will actually pay attention. Open it gently, stand it upright a day ahead, and decant carefully off the sediment. Free Hong Kong delivery over HK$800.

Tasting notes

Mature Saint-Julien typically moves away from fresh fruit towards dried fruit, leather, tobacco, forest floor and cedar, with tannins largely resolved. Expect sediment, and expect some variation between bottles of this age.