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2023 Ch Ducru Beaucaillou 2ème Cru St Julien - 6x75cl
06C3DUCR6PK _ 2023 - Ch Ducru Beaucaillou 2ème Cru St Julien - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
  • Region St Julien
  • Grape Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2028 - 2045
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur

2023 - Ch Ducru Beaucaillou 2ème Cru St Julien - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
  • Region St Julien
  • Grape Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2028 - 2045
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £744.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2024, Score: 96-98

    Not as flamboyant as in previous years, this is a more paired down Ducru with 5 years of innovation and evolution at the estate starting to bear fruit. There is tremendous concentration on the nose, with black plum, wild strawberries, and lavender tied together by a ribbon of graphite and flint. Silk-soft with impressive weight, the fine-grained tannins, refreshing acidity, and continuity of fruit means that there is not an ounce of fat on this lean, mean, Cabernet-dominant machine.

  • Neal Martin, April 2024, Score: 94-96

    The 2023 Ducru-Beaucaillou, matured in 100% new oak for a planned 18 months, has a less forceful bouquet than the 2022 last year and, consequently, shows more refinement and poise. The scents don't come barging out of the blocks, but they creep up on you. The palate is medium-bodied with a fresh entry. Showing moderate depth, it’s quite linear in style and grippy. A faint touch of bell pepper emerges on the classically styled finish that reminds me of some of the old vintages of Ducru-Beaucaillou. This is the strictest vintage I have encountered in some time. Drink 2030-2065.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2024, Score: 95-97

    The 2023 Ducru-Beaucaillou is a heady, sumptuous Saint-Julien. The aromatics alone are captivating. Truffle, rose petal, blood orange, pomegranate, spice and menthol build in a creamy, lavish Ducru. The 2023 is a classic Bruno Borie wine that emphasizes textural opulence. Time in the glass brings out gorgeous floral and spice-driven top notes. The balance of opulence and vibrancy is compelling. Drink 2033-2063.

  • James Suckling, April 2024, Score: 96-97

    This has aromas of blackberries and blackcurrant, as well as graphite and flint. Some gunpowder. It’s full-bodied with extremely refined tannins, a creamy character and al-dente fruit at the finish. Crunchy, succulent and linear. Mineral edge to it, like licking a stone. Energetic. 83% cabernet sauvignon and 17% merlot.

  • Matthew Jukes, April 2024, Score: 19.5+

    It was fabulous to see Bruno Borie up and about after all manner of new joints have been fitted – he is Saint-Julien’s Bionic Man. It was even more exciting to walk through the portfolio at a leisurely pace with Tracey Dobbin MW, the font of all Ducru knowledge and one of the most open and interesting people I met up with on my tour. In common with other estates, bud break was spot-on, and frost barely troubled the scorers, with only mild issues on the plateau. Flowering was super-abundant (an expression I heard a few times). They left 12 buds per plant and then ended up with 5-8, which was a 50% reduction in the crop. It was costly but critical, and if you cast your eyes down the page, it proved well worth it, too! Interestingly, mildew was less of a problem here than expected. Tracey described this as “a fight that was always winnable” because of lessons learned in 2021. They brought up 50 people from the harvesting team, nice and early, and they dropped fruit and carried out a trie sanitaire: removing partial bunches, cleaning and a little leaf thinning. Tracey noted that cover crops worked nicely, and ‘spot-captures’, which send spores off to a lab coupled with mini-weather-station data, give them a lot of data so they can be incredibly accurate with their treatments. Yields remained healthy, and with nicely aerated canopies, the August heatwave had little effect, but the hot temperatures in early September made everything a little more unpredictable. They started harvesting Merlot on the 8th of September, and the plateau was finished in a couple of days. The rains came on the 21st and 22nd of September, but it was much less than predicted. With no sign of botrytis, they gambled and harvested later despite a slight dilution from around 130 to 110g; they carried out a small amount of bleeding and maintained spectacular fruit quality. Selection-wise, everything was hand-harvested and hand-sorted, and every berry went through a trie optique (even on Madame). The installation of smaller conical-shaped cuves gives rich but soft tannins, and there, a vast collection of seriously intense wines, was made at this property. What strikes me so clearly about this wine is that all these efforts and attention to detail are evident in the glass. Ducru is as fit and supple as I have ever seen it. It is not a big wine but a street dancer: elegant, immensely strong, agile, decorous, and mesmerising. On the surface, this finely tuned Cabernet is the model of decorum, but the explosive perfume and palate crackle with visceral energy and the tasting experience from start to finish minutes later is extraordinarily involving. As the wine moves towards you, you must react, push as it pulls you, and activate the taste buds in differing sequences to onboard all the information held within this cache of flavour. Behind the surface notes, there is a discreet but unrelenting crackle of energy, dark purple, intense, cool, and thrilling. This wine is nothing short of a contemporary version of a great wine from the past. I kept seeing similarities between some shapes and colours that the phenomenal 1961 vintage has left on my flavour memory, but this wine could never have been made 60 years ago. It is a wine of its time, and it is entirely captivating.

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2024, Score: 96-98

    Not as flamboyant as in previous years, this is a more paired down Ducru with 5 years of innovation and evolution at the estate starting to bear fruit. There is tremendous concentration on the nose, with black plum, wild strawberries, and lavender tied together by a ribbon of graphite and flint. Silk-soft with impressive weight, the fine-grained tannins, refreshing acidity, and continuity of fruit means that there is not an ounce of fat on this lean, mean, Cabernet-dominant machine.

Producer

Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

Instantly recognisable by its sunny Mediterranean-hued label,Ducru Beaucaillou is always a favourite amongst wine aficionados. Owned by the Borie family over the last 60 years, it has been run by Bruno, the eldest son of the late Jean-Eugène, since 2003. This change in leadership seems to have had a positive effect in all vintages since. Like certain other châteaux in Bordeaux, Ducru carries out cold macerations during thei...Read more

Instantly recognisable by its sunny Mediterranean-hued label,Ducru Beaucaillou is always a favourite amongst wine aficionados. Owned by the Borie family over the last 60 years, it has been run by Bruno, the eldest son of the late Jean-Eugène, since 2003. This change in leadership seems to have had a positive effect in all vintages since. Like certain other châteaux in Bordeaux, Ducru carries out cold macerations during their vinification process, a technique in which grapes are steeped in their own juice at low temperatures to gently extract vibrant colour and fleshy fruit.Read less

Region

St Julien

St Julien is like the middle child of the Médoc - not as assertive as Pauillac or as coquettish as Margaux. It lies firmly between the two more outspoken communes and as a result produces a blend of them both. St Julien's wines have often been sought out by aficionados for their balance and consistency, particularly in the UK. Yet due to its middle child nature, it can occasionally be overlooked globally and as a result underrated by those markets outside the UK. Despite the fact that it has no first growths, it has several second growths including Léoville Las Cases, Léoville Barton, Léoville Poyferré and Ducru Beaucaillou as well as the celebrated châteaux such as Talbot and Beychevelle.

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