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Wine Description
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...
Wine Information
Mother Nature’s generosity combined with the quest for perfection.
What happened in the vineyard?
Weather Conditions: a beautiful summer followed by an absolutely perfect autumn!
The weather conditions that prevailed in 2009 remind us all of the climate that forged such mythical vintages like 2000, 2005 or even 1982, 1961 and 1945, the more so if we consider the dominant weather patterns at the end of the summer. In 2009:
The wet winte...
Vintage 2009
Much like 1947, 1961 and 2005, 2009 is a year of almost overly (for Bordeaux) flamboyant and opulent wines with high maturity and low acidity. The tannins are exceptionally ripe, while the wines are quite voluptuous in style. The Left Bank recorded more hours of sunshine than legendary vintages such as 1947 and 1982, and the grapes had higher sugar concentrations than in 2003 and 2005. The key was significant diurnal temperature variations tha...
