Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou2009
RED WINE
- Producer Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou
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Blend
85% Cabernet Sauvignon
15% Merlot - Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- Appellation Saint-Julien
- UPC 0 15643 42493 9
Reviews
James Suckling 96
The purity of fruit is wonderful in this, with plums, currants and hints of fresh mushrooms. Hints of cloves too. Full-bodied, with chewy, creamy tannins and a bright fresh finish. Super energy and intensity. 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot.
by JS, James Suckling , 2012
Wine Enthusiast 95-97
Big and powerful, structured, with bitter chocolate and blackberry flavors. The wine is dense, the fruit enormous. But it does manage to keep freshness.
by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2010
Wine Spectator 96
Features plenty of flash and sizzle, with gorgeous, inviting mocha, espresso and chocolate notes up front, backed by a dense core of plum sauce, cassis, blackberry puree and blueberry reduction accents. Long, showing terrific polish, with a lovely lingering loam note and a buried singed apple wood edge that keeps everything driving through the finish. Best from 2016 through 2035.
by JM, Wine Spectator , 2013
Wine Advocate 98
Deep garnet colored, the 2009 Ducru-Beaucaillou bursts from the glass with an amazing array of black fruit preserves and savory layers—crème de cassis, blackberry tart, baked plums and mincemeat pie with suggestions of black olives, sautéed herbs and beef drippings plus wafts of sweaty leather and sandalwood. Full-bodied with a firm frame of grainy tannins and tons of freshness, the muscular fruit completely coats the palate with juicy berry preserves, while the finish is long and savory.
by LP, Wine Advocate , 2019
Technical Details
Tasting notes
The 2009 Ducru-Beaucaillou boasts a beautiful deep violet robe. In the mouth, it exhibits a thick and luscious structure, as well as dense, albeit velvety and elegant, tannins. Its fruit is at once rich and dazzling and its finish silky smooth and wonderfully persistent.Vintage
The 2009 Ducru-Beaucaillou is a rich, generous, and luscious wine. Solid and voluptuously built around ripe and dense tannins, it is fruity and fresh, with a perfect acidity. Its finale is unending and sensual.To poetically describe this wine, one could compare it, if it were music, to a beautiful piece of "languorous soul"; were it an icon, it would evoke Beyonce Knowles in a gold and deep red satin evening dress.
The 2009 vintage is referred to as a post-crisis year because:
Its wines will be consumed long after the present crisis will have been forgotten
It is a modern vintage (both ethically and in the techniques used to produce it) and it perfectly illustrates the motto, famous amongst economists, that goes: "Crises separates new from old": 2009 is indeed the post-crisis vintage!