1988 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
Community Tasting Note
Jason Wu wrote:
flawed
Sunday, November 20, 2022 - Balsamic, muted on the palate. a little past the peak, my wife and I detect some minor TCA on the nose, but not obvious on the palate. The fruit might have been suppressed by TCA. One of those cursed bottles on 88’ and several vintages onwards that got impacted by the treatment on wooden rafters. The air-con circulated the TCA in the treatment and likely ‘infected’ the wines that exposed to oxygen during racking. The problem was fixed after commissioning the new chais.
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Comment posted by Decanting Queen:
11/20/2022 7:20:00 AM - Interesting to know regarding the rafters. I do know that Bruno Borie reconditioned all the bottles that he could from that area. So the labels that say rebottled at the chateau in 2011 are less likely to be flawed. I’m assuming yours was in its original bottling?
Comment posted by Jason Wu:
11/30/2022 3:22:00 AM - Possibly. I tasted the 88 along with 85 vintage. The 85 was recorked in the chateaux and turned out to be fine, but the 88 didn’t go through recorking. I believe they had to commission a new cellar partly to address the issue entirely, which I read from The Complete Bordeaux by Stephen Brooke.