2000 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

Community Tasting Notes (328) Avg Score: 93.7 points

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  5/2/2024 - remyworldpeace Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Lovely nose, blackberry, dark cherry along with a fan of tertiary notes; leather, truffle, french oak hint of unsmoked cigar and dried herbs.
  
  Palate opened up beautifully over 90 mins showing a real concentration of dark fruits along with beautiful tertiary notes of forest floor, oak/cedar, some tobacco leaf and leather. Nice long finish showing the different layers.
  
  EDIT: Wow, something happened after 3 hours in the decanter it opened up even further! So much complexity, balance and length. A real depth and concentration to the fruit and tertiary flavours. Very long. Absolutely stunning - gave it an extra point over my original score of 96!

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  4/11/2024 - Darbus123 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  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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  2/29/2024 - peanutbutterskittles wrote:

  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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  2/4/2024 - gew71walsh wrote: 90 Points

  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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  2/2/2024 - AaronMaxwell Likes this wine: 94 Points

  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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