2000 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

Community Tasting Notes (327) Avg Score: 93.7 points

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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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  1/7/2024 - wabi47 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  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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