Acclaimed Second Growth Château Ducru-Beaucaillou in Saint-Julien celebrates 300 years of exceptional winemaking with its 2020 vintage, marked by an exclusive commemorative label. The ideal conditions of 2020 yielded perfectly ripe and concentrated fruit, albeit with limited volumes, enabling the new technical team to produce wines that are garnering high prai...
Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou is named after the beautiful, large stones found in its unique wine-growing terroir. This exceptional ecosystem produces fine, elegant, tasty wines, with a long finish – in short, archetypal Saint-Julien wines.
Perched on an exceptional site with incomparable views over the Gironde estuary, in the centre of a hundred-year-old park, Ducru-Beaucaillou is a majestic, Victorian-style castle, which has, over time, becom...
While the overall climate of the Médoc region is influenced by the Atlantic, each area has, of course, its own characteristics. For better quality, the winemaker needs to focus : - on the specific macro-climate of each plot, which contributes to the concept of terroir (or climat as it is known in other wine-growing regions). - He also has to focus on the micro-climate at the level of the vine stock, which itself depends on wine-growing practic...
Maturity is closely monitored in each plot from the beginning of August. A harvest calendar is determined the week before the harvest and amended daily to ensure each plot is harvested at full maturity and under optimal conditions.
All grapes are hand-picked. The sorting process, which consists of eliminating leaves and substandard grapes accidentally picked, takes place on mobile tables in the vineyard, to keep them separate from healthy g...
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