Château Branaire-Ducru

Branaire-Ducru Castle

Saint-Julien-Beychevelle

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Visit duration: 60 min
Where: Saint-Julien-Beychevelle

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Château Branaire-Ducru stands in Saint-Julien-Beychevelle (Gironde), in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. Its opening hours and prices have not been verified at the source yet.

Château Branaire-Ducru stands in Saint-Julien-Beychevelle, between the Margaux and Pauillac appellations, on a wine estate ranked as a fourth growth in the 1855 classification. The current house, built in 1824 in a neoclassical style with Palladian touches, is paired with a gravity-flow vat house and a barrel cellar open to visitors. The visit centres on winemaking, from vineyard to tasting glass, rather than on the building alone.

What to know

The guided tour lasts about one hour and ends with a tasting.
Visits are by appointment only, offered in French, English or Italian.
The estate stays open during the grape harvest.
Opening days run Monday to Saturday from April to October, and Monday to Friday the rest of the year.
This is a working wine estate, and the visit focuses on the vineyard, the vat house and the cellars rather than living quarters.