2024 Ducru Beaucaillou
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Tasting Notes
Deeply coloured, the 2024 Ducru-Beaucaillou is refined and elegantly perfumed with aromas from ripe Burlat cherry to more floral notes. There’s a certain generosity of ripeness here. On the palate, the tannins are concentrated yet velvety, with a juicy and generous mouthfeel. This is subtle with beautiful salinity to the long, persistent finish. Aged in 100% New oak. 13.34% alcohol and 3.8pH. Blend: 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot
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Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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The 2024 Ducru-Beaucaillou is showing well at this stage, unfurling in the glass with a perfumed bouquet of dark berries, flowers, gentian and fresh licorice, interwoven with delicate spicy nuances. Medium to full-bodied, layered, and seamless, it is lively and refined, with somewhat firm tannins leading to a gently grippy finish. This was harvested between September 30 and October 15.
A gorgeously vivid, lifted nose, with floral aromatics, dark berry and cassis fruits, fleshy but understated, elegant and finessed, squid ink, sandalwood, incense, maintains estate signature and is full of pleasure, 100% new oak for ageing, 3.8 pH. Harvest 23 September to 7 October.
The 2024 Ducru-Beaucaillou is a sleek, elegant wine. Silky tannins give the 2024 its distinctly mid-weight, lithe personality. Readers will find a gracious Ducru built more on persistence and nervy tension than size or opulence. Blue/black fruits, lavender, cloves, menthol and chocolate open over time. It will be fascinating to see how this ages.
About the producer
Second Growth estate Ch. Ducru-Beaucaillou in Saint-Julien is one of the Super Seconds, an elite group of properties producing wines that regularly compete with the finest in the Médoc.