Community Tasting Notes 327

• Darbus123 Likes this wine: 96 points

  April 11, 2024 - 2hr decant then drank over another 2 hours. Just fabulous. I had the 1996 last year and this bottle was similar. Still some layers of lovely fruit but bolstered with amazing tertiary notes. Very long and classy.

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• peanutbutterskittles wrote:

  February 29, 2024 - On pop and pour it was dominated by cedar, tobacco, and other oak-driven notes, with some more red than dark fruit and a hint of spice. Very drying tannins, with moderate acidity.
  
  After a couple of hours it integrated a bit more, the fruit was still muted and more red than dark, but was less disjointed with the cedar notes than it was initially.
  
  A very fine wine with decent length, but it seems the fruit has gone into hiding and the strong secondary notes haven't shown up to the party yet.

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• gew71walsh wrote: 90 points

  February 4, 2024 - Didnt show as well as I expected. Opened for 75th birthday and it was surprisingly light and had lost some of its fruit. Secondary aspects had not come forward as much as I expected. Was stored for 20 years at 57 degrees and 70% humidity so I don't think provenance was an issue. Maybe my palate just likes younger wines. Had earlier bottle 3 yrs ago.

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• AaronMaxwell Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 2, 2024 - Enjoyed at Gozu.
  
  Nose: Bretty leather, forest floor, stewed berries, rosemary and thyme, saline
  
  Palette: brambles of red fruit, tobacco, leather
  
  Finish: not much acid, gentle, luxurious
  
  Points detracted for the fruit softening a tad much. 4 years ago, this felt like a wine with more energy (unsurprisingly)

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• wabi47 Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 7, 2024 - decanted 30 minutes for sediment (and needed an hour). notable funk wins over the ususal haunting nose; nice mushroom and tobacco tertiary notes; the deep fruit is there and has great length; shows how well bordeaux wines can age
  day two: funk mostly gone, much more clean earth and you notice the tannin; the fruit is still there

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2000
• Type Red
• Producer Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation St. Julien
• UPC Codes 0649944033509, 071570013462, 087000323643, 087000326835, 087000346642, 3364420008365, 3364420009805, 3364420026420, 3452130038113, 3700266200615, 400001878156, 400006222565, 649944020073, 802236000355

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• Pending Delivery 134 (1%)
• In Cellars 13,550 (72%)
• Consumed 5,044 (27%)

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