2002 Branaire-Ducru
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Hydric stress in 2004 kept the individual grapes to average size, noted president Patrick Maroteau, explaining why the new wine has such a solid structure. Maroteau pointed out that the ultimate production of 50.4 hectoliters per hectare in 2004 is not much higher than the 2000 vintage's 48. He added that improvements in the vineyards have allowed this property to gain eight to ten days of maturity since the early '90s, and today's wines are richer in polyphenols as a result.
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According to President Patrick Maroteau, the key to the vintage was the well-timed rains in August that revived the vines' leaves and restarted photosynthesis. "We had seven millimeters of rain on August 16th that ended the heat wave, then another 14 millimeters four days later. Still, at the beginning of September, we thought the fruit lacked structure and polyphenols, and that color would be hard to extract. The 40 millimeters of rain we had between September 2 and 6 was critical to the quality of the vintage, although by the 8th we were afraid that the rather fragile merlot skins were on the verge of rotting. But at that point we were saved by a wind from the east that dried the grapes." The very small grapes produced a yield of just 31 hectoliters per hectare, compared to 37 in 2002 and 48 in 2000. As evidence of how much lower yields are today at Bordeaux's more serious chateaux, Maroteau noted that production here was 64 hectoliters per hectare in 1989, a vintage that's widely considered to be an outstanding one for Branaire.
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Two thousand two brought the smallest crop here since 1991, with production down to just 35 hectoliters per hectare. Part of the merlot was not at all affected by coulure, said President Patrick Maroteaux, whose family owns Branaire, but there was a lot of coulure in the cabernet. The result is a blend that includes more merlot than the estate's 2001. "Today we smell a lot of fruit in the wine, almost like at the time of the harvest," said Maroteaux. "We consider the 2002 among the three or four best vintages of the last 15 years."
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