1970 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
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Saturday, January 21, 2017 - Base neck fill, bottle in very good condition for a 1970.
Tasted blind as a ringer in a flight with 10 Cabernet from California, from 1960s and 1970s. I ranked this 2nd of 11, but it did not stand out particularly as a Bordeaux. Although with Ducru Beaucaillou's more fruity profile compared to other Left Bank ones, that may not be surprising.
The nose started with notes of old oak, sandalwood, and smoke, but then elegant red cherry and strawberry elements emerged, along with complexity added by cigar and cedar. Over time dried red cherry, cigar, and cedar dominated. The wine had a certain austerity, characteristic of Bordeaux, but many other wines in the flight (that included two Inglenooks, two BV Georges Latours, a Dehlinger, and a Charles Krug) had similar personalities.
The palate was nicely complex with red fruit, cigar, and oak. The biggest nit on this wine might have been that it was still surprising tannic. While the structure was nice, I would have hoped for a more smooth finish.
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