Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou Le Petit Ducru (Futures Pre-Sale) 2021
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Blend: 80% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Petit Verdot
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James Suckling
Perfumed already with currants, blueberries, violets, bark and sandalwood. Medium-bodied with fine, lightly powdery tannins. Very fresh. Cool blue fruit. 80% merlot, 12% cabernet sauvignon and 8% petit verdot. Third wine of Ducru-Beaucaillou.
Barrel Sample: 91-92 -
Jeb Dunnuck
The third wine of the estate, the 2021 Le Petit Ducru De Ducru-Beaucaillou is shockingly good. Based on 80% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the balance Petit Verdot, lots of classy cassis, graphite, violets, and background oak notes define the bouquet, and it's medium-bodied, with a lively, supple, elegant mouthfeel and an overall fresh, straight-up pretty, yet still textured style.
Barrel Sample: 90-92 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Le Petit Ducru mostly derives from 25 hectares in Saint-Julien purchased by Jean-Eugène Borie in 1972 and formerly known as Lalande-Borie. Exhibiting aromas of cherries, cassis and petals, it's medium to full-bodied, ample and seamless, with a polished, charming profile and an impressively penetrating finish. Barrel Sample: 89-90.
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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, archetypical Saint-Julien wines.
Perched on an exceptional site with incomparable views over the Gironde estuary, in the center of a hundred-year-old park, Ducru-Beaucaillou is a majestic, Victorian-style castle, which has, over time, become one of the great symbols of the Médoc. Unusual for Bordeaux, it is built directly above the barrel cellars, enveloping its owners, who have lived here for over sixty years.
Today, the estate is managed by the company Jean Eugène Borie SA, which is owned by Mrs Borie, her daughter Sabine Coiffe and her son Bruno-Eugène, CEO since 2003, the third generation of the Borie family to head the estate. There are very close links between this estate and the five families who have been its successive owners.