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  • Country ranking ?

    1 573
  • Producer ranking ?

    54
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    Now
  • 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 1955

In Bordeaux, 1955 began with unstable weather conditions just before summer, but turned into an extremely favorable season by the end of the year. A glorious, sunny and warm, if not hot, period prevailed throughout August and September, until the right amount of much-needed rain arrived. The harvest turned out to be of the highest quality. However, because the vintage was overshadowed by the 1953, it offers value-for-money wines that can still...

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Written Notes

This one had a beautiful nose at first with some ripe cherry fruit, musk, olive, earth and vanilla ice cream aromas. There were nice earth and cedar flavors, on the drier and earthier side. Jim and Wendy were both feeling the .mocha and coffee. side of the wine.s personality, but Ray was quick to dismiss it, saying the .nose gave me high hopes but the palate dashed them.. There were pleasant olive flavors and good acids still, and as the wine changed in the glass, a lot of caramel and raisin aromas came out. The wine did head south fairly quickly and became angular and even a touch sour, but for the first 20 minutes I actually preferred it to the Lafite, which proved to be a better wine. This bottle of Ducru was clinging to being very good and definitely a wine to be consumed within the first thirty minutes of being opened
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Tasted in November 2022. 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc. Well-preserved fruit that tasted quite jammy, past its prime for a long time, and tired, slightly edgy tannin. Sadly, this bottle had probably traveled a lot, and its provenance was questionable.

  • 84p
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St.Julien, Bordeaux
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