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St.-Estèphe’s Neighbor for a Fraction of the Price

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2015 Château la Branne Cru Bourgeois Médoc 750 ml

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Tracking a Favorite to Its Source

If you’re one of the avid collectors who have filled our inboxes with bargain requests, asking us to seek out perfectly stored, highly rated, affordable Bordeaux: We heard you. After many months of hunting, tasting, researching, and ultimately purchasing, we’ve got a winner with Château La Branne, an estate that we’ve long known, but isn’t easy to find on this side of the Atlantic. 

Dense and chewy on the palate, the 2015 bursts with flavors of blackberry cobbler and mocha, accented by firm tannins and a long, mineral-tinged finish—and it tastes just as good stateside as it did in the Médoc, which is why we’re back with this rare value Bordeaux beauty at the best price in the nation, $18 per bottle.

It’s a remarkable steal, which James Suckling awarded 92 points, calling it “a well-wrought wine [that] melds the tannins and fruit into a balanced whole.” Wine Enthusiast loved its “very lively red cherry and strawberry fruit tinged with kirsch.” La Branne is one of our favorite Bordeaux wines because affordability and richness like this estate deliver rarely exist side by side. 

On our last trip to Bordeaux, we decided to explore their hallowed terroir for ourselves. Located just to the north of St.-Estèphe in the heart of the Médoc, Château La Branne’s vines grow on gravelly sand, clay, and limestone soils that transmit similar power and muscularity to its best wines as its famous neighboring village, but at a fraction of the price: The 2015 Cos d’Estournel runs over $200 per bottle, whereas the 2015 Château La Branne is just a fraction of that.

When we finally met Philippe Videau, a Decanter award winner and the man behind this perennial Wine Access favorite, at Le Café de l’Espérance in Bordeaux. Over plates of steak-frites, we had the chance to enjoy this under-the-radar gem the way Monsieur Videau prefers it: Alongside rich yet casual food, and in the company of friends. We recommend you do the same, with cold weather looming there’s nothing better than soul-warming Bordeaux... except soul-warming Bordeaux at the nation’s best price.