2014 Château Grand-Puy Ducasse
Community Tasting Note
Keith Levenberg Likes this wine:
Thursday, December 21, 2017 - This is not a chateau anybody pays much attention to, but this is really punching above its weight and classification and is one of the serious smart buys of a serious smart-buy vintage. I actually prefer it to the more highly esteemed Grand Puy Lacoste at this point. This is textbook Pauillac all the way (which I guess makes sense since the vineyards are spotted all over Pauillac from the fancy Rothschild neighbors in the north to the St. Julien side in the south) - dark fruit with loads of pencil shavings. It's structured in a very classic way, clenched and tensile, but also not at all hard to drink because it seems to lean on acidity more than tannin for its structure, or at the very least the fruit still has enough gloss that the tannin is smoothed over and doesn't make its presence felt until later on.
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Comment posted by tward:
8/8/2022 9:12:00 AM - Thanks for the excellent TN. I'm looking for reference point (in terms of typicity) examples of various sub-regions at an affordable price and reading your "textbook Pauillac" characterization gives me confidence.
Comment posted by Keith Levenberg:
8/8/2022 9:42:00 AM - Ducasse is tough to beat for screaming Pauillac character at a friendly price. Also Duhart Milon.