Brancaia Il Blu
- Red
- Italy
- Toscana
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Sangiovese
- Canaiolo Nero
- Tracked vintages
- 19
- Community notes
- 371
- Merchant offers
- 62
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002019 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 87/ 100371 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £51per 75 cl2016 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
- Drinking window
- 2019–2036peak2016 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 932 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Tuscan Red.
- Body3.5 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.2 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.1 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, blueberry, plum, blackcurrant, black cherry
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, mushroom, minerals
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, dried herbs, cinnamon, mint
- Dried fruit · raisin, prune, dried fruit, fig, dried cranberry
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sangiovese, Canaiolo Nero. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1996One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2016
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202291drinkersunit not stated
- 202191drinkersunit not stated
- 202087drinkersunit not stated
- 201995criticunit not stated
- 201895criticunit not stated
- 201795criticunit not stated
- 201696critic£51 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
- 201593critic
- 201194critic£28 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017
- 201094critic
- 200990critic
- 200890critic£37 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
- 200794critic
- 200695critic
- 200494critic
- 200385drinkers
- 200088drinkers
- 199887drinkers£45 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
- 1996£75 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2016
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2016
- peak, window 2019–2036
- Lowest price
- 2011
- £28 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | £51 | 95.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024 |
| 2011 | £28 | 93.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017 |
| 2008 | £37 | 90 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021 |
| 1998 | £45 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022 |
| 1996 | £75 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022 |
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