2000 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
Community Tasting Note
hrazdiiv Likes this wine:
Saturday, April 15, 2023 - Absolutely wonderful. This wine is in peak drinking form now and is about a classic Bordeaux as you can get, yet it has an element of new world freshness to it that adds another pleasant layer to the experience. Color is just a shade darker than I was expecting, with very little bricking at the rim. Nose is a bit shy at first so we let sit in the glass to open up. Nice aromas of cedar, pencil, charcoal in the first hour or so. Palate is a bit more international here, some still-present tannin nicely compliments tobacco and cassis notes that provide a bit of freshness. Second hour, more of the fruit came out on the nose, another sign it's in a great drinking window (still evolving). Harmonious finish, just got better as the night went on. Very close to rating it a (rare for me) 95 points but wouldn't rule it out next time.
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Comment posted by Decanting Queen:
4/15/2023 7:03:00 AM - Nice review and brave of you not to decant it longer!
Comment posted by I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine:
4/15/2023 7:26:00 AM - Nice review! Thank you for the update on these! I only have a couple, and think I will hold off for a few more years. Sounds like there is definitely no hurry to drink these!
Comment posted by hrazdiiv:
4/15/2023 7:32:00 AM - Thanks! I definitely debated decanting and felt it could’ve gone either way. In hindsight I probably should’ve done it but it also allowed us to enjoy the wine just a bit longer.
Comment posted by zimmy07:
4/15/2023 10:32:00 AM - I struggle with this wine. It is a top 10 wine for me, I have had it over a dozen times. The first 10 or so were poorly stored I bought from a store, they were 98pt wines, but the poor storage aged them heavily. Then bought more, great storage, and they are 20 years too young. 2000 Bordeaux is still young. I read these notes and get excited, open and find out it is a baby, but this may convince me to pop another one soon
Comment posted by hrazdiiv:
4/15/2023 12:02:00 PM - If you've had this wine a dozen times then you obviously know your stuff, but I can tell you with certainty that this well stored bottle was at peak drinking now and definitely not a baby. Tannic structure was appropriate but soft. Let's face it, bottle variation is always going to matter on 23yr old wines regardless of genre.