Description
| Category | Red Wine |
| Varietals |
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| Brand | Château Ducru-Beaucaillou |
| Origin | France, Bordeaux, Blaye-Côtes de Bordeaux |
| Alcohol/vol | 13.5% |
Other vintages
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint Julien 2018Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint Julien 2017
Wine Advocate
- wa98
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Ducru-Beaucaillou features a wonderfully savory, earthy/meaty nose, delivering well-defined notes of tapenade, truffles, charcuterie and sautéed herbs over crème de cassis, wild blueberries and kirsch with wafts of pencil lead and menthol. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is built like a brick house with the taut, muscular fruit well framed by very firm yet very ripe and finely grained tannins, offering a quiet intensity of red fruit and mineral sparks and finishing with epic length.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown, November 30, 2017
Wine Enthusiast
- we98
This wine conveys density but its richness is sublimated by the complex structure and beautiful ripe fruit. Its power comes from the structure as much as the fruit, promising a wine with an immensely long life ahead of it. Drink from 2025.
Roger Voss, May 1, 2019
Wine Spectator
- ws97
Offers exotic, cashmere-textured, mocha-infused blackberry, cassis and plum puree flavors, with smoldering incense and warm fruitcake notes and a swath of plush yet serious grip too boot, showing ample depth and breath. As distinctive a Bordeaux as there is these days. Best from 2025 through 2040. 7,500 cases made.
Jonny McCormick, January 31, 2019
