Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Saturday, August 2, 2008 - Ducru Beaucaillou Vertical (1978, '85, '86, '95 and '96, with a few extras) (Richfield, Lam Soon Building, Singapore): This was a very good wine indeed, everything was in the right place - it just did not excite me as much as it should for some reason. Still darkly purple. Nose showed some meat, some green pepper, the littlest undertone of buttery oak and lots of dark, brooding blackberry and plum fruit. Very good. After some time, a familiar jasmine tea-ish scent appeared as well as a slightly dried-fishy tang, rather like loam or mud from a forest stream - sounds bad, but really more interesting, even enticing than unpleasant. The palate showed great balance, power and intensity, with lots more of the dark, plush fruit, yet it was still friendly and very poised, unlike the 1996, which came across rather big and loud in spite of its loads of seductive fruit and flowers. This had real structure - lovely fresh acid and the finest tannins moving into a nice round finish which, while not long, was not exactly short either. Overall, this was a solid wine that has quite a bit of room for improvement as it ages. Probably the most classic Bordelais of the vintages we tried too.

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