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  • Country ranking ?

    455
  • Producer ranking ?

    10
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    from 2020
  • Food Pairing

    Beef

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The Story

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...

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Vintage 2015

Full report of Bordeaux 2015 by Andrew Caillard MW “Next in line in a great series of vintages; 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2015.

 

2015 is a wonderful Bordeaux vintage without the hype or hysteria associated with 2009 and 2010. The wines are generally expressive and generous with wonderful concentration and structure. Given another year in barrel, the wines should gain more complexity and fruit volume. Châteaux, in all sub-regions, are e...

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Ruby. Red berries, anise, blueberries, cassis, some spices below, ever so slight herbal touch far back, tight nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark fruity, anise, spices, cassis and red fruits, spices, leaner body, structured behind, long. Drink from 2025 and twenty years or so thereafter. 92

  • 92p
Dark purple red with violet hue and black core. A wine with great precision, elegant but persistent, complex fruit, fine mild spices, discreet hints of toasted oak in the background. On the palate well structured with ripe tannins, well balanced character and excellent depth. A great success in 2015.
  • 97p
Deep colour. Intense dark cherry, cassis aromas with provinces but balanced mocha liquorice oak. Concentrated Sweet liquorice dark cherry cassis fruit, fine chalky tannin and beautiful inky length. Lovely buoyant style with velvety textures and attractive volume. Plush yet refined wine. 97 points. 
  • 97p
Ducru Beaucaillou Saint Julien - 95% Cabernet Sauvignon 5% Merlot – 13.42% Alcohol Very deep colour, fine nose, tobacco, cedar, good texture here, lovely palate open and facile very ripe tannins this will be a beauty, very fine complex very elegant. Very long. This is an exceptional Ducru, one which the chateau rates alongside the finest ever produced. 95-98/100 2026-2040
  • 96p
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Origin

St.Julien, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Extraordinary

Value For Money

Best buy

Investment potential

Below Average

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