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Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux
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2025
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Polished, silky, and vibrant, the wine is loaded with layers of lifted, sweet fruits and freshness. The mid-palate and finish complete the experience with length, energy, and a touch of chalk accompanying all of its ripe, round-textured fruits. This is an estate that continues to up its game. Drink from 2029-2050. 92-94 Pts 580 Views Tasted May 7, 2026 |
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2024
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Licorice, plums, cocoa, flowers, and black cherries pop in the nose, and on the forward, medium-bodied, fruity, and chewy palate, with loads of tasty currants in the finish. The wine blends 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, and 10% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts 787 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2023
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Flowers, tobacco, cedar, and black currants come to the surface in the nose. The plate continues in the same direction with its juicy layers of sweet, dark red, and black currants, with the perfect touch of refreshing mint that shows up in the finish. This is really showing well, much better than it did in barrel. Drink from 2026-2036. 238 Views Tasted Mar 17, 2026Chewy, with an herbal, floral, bright, firm character from start to finish, give it a year or two in the bottle to round out its edges. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,538 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Tobacco leaf, cedar, cigar wrappers, and espresso escort the blackberries and currants on your palate. Creamy, vibrant and lively, there is superb, lift and energy here, along with loads of fruit. finishing with a dollop of dark chocolate in the endnote. This is showing much better in the bottle than in did in the barrel, a good marker for a high quality wine. Drink from 2026-2042. 903 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Supple, creamy-textured wine with a core of espresso, dark berry and cocoa nuances, the wine is medium-bodied, round in texture, with a cocoa and espresso edge to the fruits, finishing with refreshing herbs on the backend. Drink from 2025-2037. 90-92 Pts. 2,805 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Licorice, chocolate and dark red fruits appear in the nose easily. The wine is medium-bodied, soft and shows some polish to its chocolate and black raspberry mid-palate and finish. Drink from 2024-2035. 749 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024A touch of cocoa, licorice, flowers, and red fruits show up easily on the nose and in the soft, forward, medium-bodied, fleshy, polished palate. Drink from 2023-2030. 88-90 1,334 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Scoring at the top of the range, due to all of the freshness and vibrance in the sweet, plums and cherries, the tannins are soft, polished and elegant, giving you the opportunity to enjoy all the chocolate, plums and sweet, spicy, earthy, ripe fruits in the finish. Drink from 2023-2040. 2,125 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023With notes of tobacco, espresso, dark red fruits, herbs and cocoa, the wine is soft, round, polished, fruity and fresh. With a nice sweetness to the fruits and soft ripe tannins on the palate, the ripe berries taste and feel great in the finish. This is one of the top wines from Listrac and it sells for a song. 91-93 Pts 3,102 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Lusciously textured fruits come through with ease on the palate, along with its layers of savory blackberries, touch of dark cocoa, smoke, thyme and black cherries. The finish is even better due to its layers of soft, polished, ripe dark fruits. Give this a few years of age and its going to be great for almost 2 decades. Drink from 2024-2039. 3,565 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Luxuriously textured, ripe, fresh, sweet, juicy fruit with character is what you will find here. The finish, with its round, polished tannins and deep red fruits hits the mark in this vintage. 91-93 Pts 6,043 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Aromatically the wine shoots right out of the glass with flowers, licorice, smoke, tobacco leaf, herbs and dark red fruits. And it gets even better on the palate with all its fresh, exuberant, ripe, licorice-covered red fruits, espresso and bitter chocolate. This is a top value from the Left Bank, so savvy consumers take notice. 2,767 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Filled to the brim with licorice, espresso, plum and black currant, the wine is soft, polished, sweet, fresh and juicy. The fruity finish comes with espresso, licorice and wet earth as well as a mouthful of dark red fruits. 92-94 Pts 3,639 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Crisp, bright and juicy, the wine offers licorice and earthy accents to the dynamic cassis, which permeates the nose and the palate. 2,463 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Smoke, earth, tobacco, cedar, cherry and floral characteristics are strong here. On the palate the wine displays ripe, juicy red fruits, soft, crisp tannins and ripe red plum and cherry in the finish. 3,455 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019With good color, it's easy to find the cassis, licorice, smoke, and cherries here. The wine has a softness to the tannins and sweet fruit in the finish. 2,379 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Sporting good color, licorice, smoke, black cherry and earthy scents are right there. Round, with sweet, ripe plums in the endnote, give it a few years to come around. 88 - 90 Pts 2,818 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2016 |
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2014
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Lively, soft textured wine, with round tannins, fresh, dark red berries, hints of licorice, smoke and cocoa, and a blast of black cherry in the finish. And it sells for a song. 2,764 Views Tasted Apr 1, 2017 |
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2012
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Medium bodied, firm, classically styled, crisp wine, with strong tannins and a bright cassis, smoke and espresso bean finish. Time could add more character and softness to the wine. But the vintage was a difficult year for many estates in the Haut Medoc. 2,920 Views Tasted Sep 22, 2016 |
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2011
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Light, crisp red fruits with a strong touch of pyrazines and tobacco leaf on the nose and soft, dusty, red berry palate. This is not going to make old bones. I'd opt for drinking this sooner than later. 2,073 Views Tasted Dec 14, 2021 |
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2010
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Soft textures, round tannins and a blast of licorice, smoke, espresso bean and black cherries carry through from start to finish. An hour or so in the decanter helps. Still young, this will be better in a few years. One of the better wines from Moulis and it sells for fair price too! The wine was made from blending 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Petit Verdot. 5,533 Views Tasted May 19, 2015 |
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2009
Château Branas Grand-Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Just starting to open and show nicely, with its soft, medium bodied, round textures, coupled with its smoky, black cherry, licorice, earth and mocha infused profile. The wine was made from a blend of 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot. 2,935 Views Tasted Nov 1, 2015 |
