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Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou 1970

Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, Bordeaux, France

Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
Bordeaux France
  • 94
    Points
  • The 1 350 best
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  • 5 Pros of
    6 recommend
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  • Moment

  • Country ranking ?

    1 177

  • Producer ranking ?

    34

  • 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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Tasting note

color

Mature and Brick red

ending

Long

flavors

Blackcurrant, Cedar, Cigar-box, Leather and Cassis

nose

Mature and Charming

recommend

Yes

taste

Perfectly balanced, Mature, Harmonious, Elegant and Silky tannins

Verdict

Excellent

Written Notes

Tasted in November 2022. 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc. Very intense and refined nose of ripe blackcurrants, multilayered and with great complexity on the palate. Rich, refined, and with classy structure, lively and with a long aftertaste. This 54-year-old wine is at its peak now and will stay there for another 5-7 years or even longer. Superbly crafted one.

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  • 95p

Imported by Cross & Blackwell Vintage Cellars.  Upper-shoulder fill.  Alcohol 11.5%.  There was a good, moderately deep garnet color.  The nose had quite the bottle stink at first which morphed into wild onions and eventually cedar underlaid by onions.  The wine eventually became savory and mouthing filling with notes of cedar followed by tart red and black fruit.  The middle was lifted with a sappy nature, integrated acidity and a decent length. There was even still some ripe structure and blue fruit which was left on the gums.  The wine was a bit linear at times with a short finish but did give ethereal sensations of midplate ripeness.  ** Now.

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  • 83p
One of my favourite clarets. I have been drinking this wine regularly over the last 25 years and it does not seemed to have aged at all. It is very elegant with a classic nose of cedar and cassis. Sweet fruit and a long finish. Great balance. Will drink well for another 25 years.
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  • 93p
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Origin

St.Julien, Bordeaux
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