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• englishman's claret wrote: 97 points

  May 9, 2023 - The 2022 Ducru Beaucaillou is pretty enchanting on the nose, with an amazing depth of black and red berries, mineral, and a subtle florality, dense and only slowly unwinding. The amount of tannin in the mouth is slightly surprising, following on the suave nose, and this will take a longer time to really start drinking in earnest than most St Juliens this year. The team here mentioned efforts taken to avoid over-extraction, which is interesting given the amount of tannin - but that's just the combination of the vintage and the terroir here. This should be a winner in time, though it will require rather a lot of it!
  
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• Jeff Leve wrote: 99 points

  May 8, 2023 - Inky dark in color, the wine exudes blackberries, smoke, currants, nutmeg, flowers, Cuban cigar wrapper, black cherries, smoke, and spice in the nose. On the palate, the wine is dense, and intense, yet light on its feet with seemingly, endless waves of deep, black and red, spicy fruits. There is symmetry, balance, and freshness on the palate. The tannins are present, silky, and refined. The wine is silky, supple, creamy, and seamless in the finish, which moves from black fruits, to red fruits and back to black fruits with spice, and accents of mint and a touch of citrus at the very end of the finish, which lingers for at least 60 seconds. Ducru Beaucaillou has been on an unstoppable roll since 2009. Produced from blending 81% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19% Merlot, 14% ABV, 3.8 pH. Picking took place September 7 -- October 4. Drink from 2028-2065. 98-100 Pts.

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• vvWine.ch wrote: 98 points

  May 1, 2023 - 98 vvPunkte / 100% Neuholz. 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot. Die Nase duftet unglaublich schön, florale Noten über viel dunkler Frucht, die schwarzen Johannisbeeren tanzen mit frisch geschnittenen Kräutern, super tiefgründig und klar und rein. Im Gaumen delikat, gradlinig, mit unemein viel Frische, der Wein hat einen knackigen Fruchtkern, das Holz ist kaum wahrnehmbar, energiegeladen, mit einem Spannungsbogen, sensationellen Tanninen und einer sehr feinen Säure, die dem Wein trotz 14% Alkohol Leichtigkeit und Frische verleiht. Lang und ausgwogen. Voller Finesse! (Verkostet "En Primeur" im April 2023 / UGCB / Château Ducru-Beaucaillou) #primeurs22 www.vvWine.ch

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• chatters wrote:

  April 25, 2023 - En Primeur campaign for the 2022 vintage Day Four (Bordeaux): Black fruits; blackcurrant, sweet spice, a little toasty biscuit note. A touch of plums, a sense of power but not as overtly clumsily concentrated as the other wines from Ducru Beaucaillou that are here today. Medium plus intensity acidity, a very slightly sour underpin to the black hued fruit again monster level tannins are chewy, drying, broad, big and bolshy but the fruit persist on the long finish. Woof. Very slight bitterness on the long finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2022
• 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 3364420008365, 802236000355

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• Pending Delivery 611 (85%)
• In Cellars 106 (15%)
• Consumed 4 (1%)

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