1996 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- > Bordeaux
- > Médoc
- > St. Julien
Auction price: Register or sign-in to see quarterly averages
or visit the Wine Market Journal
Drink by: (Add My Drinking Window)
Advertisement
Who Likes This Wine(132)
-
Eric Wright
286 Tasting Notes
-
johnhz
44 Tasting Notes
-
VINNICK
504 Tasting Notes
Community Tasting Notes (477) Avg Score: points
View all 477 Community Tasting Notes
What Do You Think? Add a Tasting Note
Pro Reviews
Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.
JancisRobinson.com
-
By Jancis Robinson, MW
(Ch Ducru-Beaucaillou St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
1/24/2022, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)
Decanter
-
By Yohan Castaing
(Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, Cabernet Sauvignon, St-Julien, Bordeaux, France, Red) Login and subscribe to see review text.
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou vertical tasting: 1953-2018, 6/1/2021, (See more on Decanter...)
JamesSuckling.com
-
By James Suckling
(Château Ducru-Beaucaillou St-Julien Bordeaux, France) Login and sign up and see review text.
6/12/2016, (See more on JamesSuckling.com...)
JancisRobinson.com
-
By Alex Hunt, MW
(Ch Ducru-Beaucaillou St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
10/12/2015, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)
View From the Cellar
-
By John Gilman
(Château Ducru-Beaucaillou) Login and sign up and see review text.
May/Jun 2012, Issue #39, Château Ducru-Beaucaillou: One of Bordeaux’s Greatest Estates, (See more on View From the Cellar...)
Vintage Tastings
-
By John Kapon
(Ducru Beaucaillou) Login and sign up and see review text.
Chicago Recap, 11/2/2011, (See more on Vintage Tastings...)
JancisRobinson.com
-
By Jancis Robinson, MW
(Ch Ducru-Beaucaillou St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
2/17/2011, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)
The WINEFRONT
-
By Campbell Mattinson
(Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou) Login and subscribe to see review text.
2/26/2008, (See more on The WINEFRONT...)
JancisRobinson.com
-
By Jancis Robinson, MW
(Ch Ducru-Beaucaillou St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
9/8/2006, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)
-
By Stephen Tanzer
(Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou Saint Julien) Login and sign up and see review text.
July/August 2002, IWC Issue #103, (See more on Vinous...)
JancisRobinson.com
-
By Jancis Robinson, MW
(Ch Ducru-Beaucaillou St-Julien Red) Subscribe to see review text.
6/28/2002, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)
-
By Neal Martin
(Ducru-Beaucaillou Ducru-Beaucaillou Red) Login and sign up and see review text.
Where the Heart Is: Ducru-Beaucaillou 1934-2018 (Jul 2022), (See more on Vinous...)
Rockss and Fruit
-
By Lyle Fass
(Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou) I've had this before and it has been spectacular but this was a strange bottle. Nose came roaring out of the gate with ripe fruits and some lead pencil, smoke, tar . . then then this stank of almost bacteria took over after 1.5 hours and rendered the wine nasty to the nose and stripped the wine of it's fruit. The first hour this wine was going good with a deep well-structured palate and sweet fruit and then it just dived off a cliff and became nasty. Strange experience.
2/12/2006, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...) -
By Lyle Fass
(Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou) I don't remember much but I remember it was juicy, ripe, wide open, finessed and long.
7/20/2004, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)
NOTE: Some content is property of JancisRobinson.com and Decanter and JamesSuckling.com and View From the Cellar and Vintage Tastings and The WINEFRONT and Vinous and Rockss and Fruit.
Add a Pro Review
Add Your Own Reviews:
Wine Definition
- Vintage1996
- TypeRed
- ProducerChâteau Ducru-Beaucaillou
- VarietyRed Bordeaux Blend
- Designationn/a
- Vineyardn/a
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- SubRegionMédoc
- AppellationSt. Julien
- Display optionsDefault
- UPC/EAN Code000004111726, 0649944033509, 1000000000202, 3364420008365, 3364420009805, 3364420026420, 3460270005858, 3609050258613, 3760131685879, 400001878156, 802236000355
5/10/2024 - Eric Wright Likes this wine: 95 Points
On opening, a bit of poopy diaper and burnt bell pepper. It blows off quickly. The palate is excellent from the start. Fruit and tannin are fully integrated. The cool pencil lead and bell pepper that you want form this comes straight through. This is exactly what you want it to be. Drink up
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
5/6/2024 - johnhz Likes this wine:
Had for 35th anniversary. Fabulous
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
5/4/2024 - Invest wrote: 93 Points
Bottle opened about 1h before consumption.
Initially beautiful fruit aromas on the red side, with good structure and depth, which gradually disappear as the wine progresses and turn into pretty one-dimensional milk chocolate with a little strawberryy. Frankly, everything still very nice and harmonious, but far away from the drug range of 95 pts.
Prices for this wine are currently around 300 euros. Not worth it, sell, 93-.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3)
4/26/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
Another beautiful '96 with a bit more heft than the Pichon but not as refined. What was interesting was how clear the difference was between Pauillac and St. Julien with the Ducru showing more on the red fruit spectrum with a fabulous spicy complexity on the finish. As David said correctly, it did begin to fade in the glass while the Pichon held up better so drink this with a short decant. 95
3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
4/23/2024 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:
Non-blind because this was my wine (tasted blind by the others). Incredible purity on the nose with a wonderful notes of classic mature Bordeaux notes (cedar, tobacco, etc.) with some menthol and a greenish note on the finish. This was a perfectly stored bottle of this wine. It was a very "clean" wine.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment