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Château Branaire-Ducru 1998

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Scores

Two measures, kept apart on purpose. One is about the bottle, the other about the year.

Wine Score

89 / 100

Critic evidence
Critic: not reviewed
Community evidence
Community 89 from 507 notes

how we score

Region Vintage

91 / 100

Saint-Julien · 1998

Not part of the Wine Score.

Method region_vintage_v1

Drinking window

2003now 20262016
Past the window, which closed in 2016. Published by 3 critics.

Price

Merchant price range, per 750ml

No merchant price we can stand behind.

Our own summary of 3 tracked offers. It is not a merchant listing, and nobody will sell you a bottle at the median. The individual listings are below.

Price basis not confirmed, may or may not include UK duty and VAT.

Prices read 2026-10-08. We hold one dated snapshot of merchant prices rather than a series, so there is no retail price chart on this page. The one price history we do own is trade based: the market index.

Critic scores

  • 89/100Retrieved · Note text not published (licence not confirmed).
  • 89/100Published Retrieved · Note text not published (licence not confirmed).
  • 89/100Published Retrieved · Note text not published (licence not confirmed).

Each score is shown as it was published, on its own scale: a 95/100 and an 18/20 are not the same claim.

We hold 1 further critic scores for this vintage and show the 3 above.

Where to buy

Retail route

3 observations from 2 venues; 1 with unknown format, prices shown as listed below. A shelf price is what a merchant listed on the date shown; no bidding, no premium.

Retail asks, cheapest first, with the venue and the source behind each one.
VenuePrice
vinpark.ch · £59per 750ml
winelyrics.com · £85as listed · unit not recorded
vinpark.ch · £74per 750ml

Auction route

No auction activity in the tracked window.

No auction activity in the tracked window.

Work out the true landed cost →

What it has fetched at auction, year by year: Château Branaire-Ducru 1998 price history.

LWIN 100725719980600750, the identifier for this bottling and format.