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Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou2010

RED WINE

PUBLIC
May 2025
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Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou label
  • Producer Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou
  • Blend 90% Cabernet Sauvignon
    10% Merlot
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Saint-Julien
  • UPC 0 15643 42429 8

Reviews

James Suckling 100

The nose is phenomenal with perfect aromas of Cabernet Sauvignon with currant bush, blackberries and minerals. A pure expression of Cab. The palate is perfect with a full body, but has perfectly integrated tannins with a texture like the finest cashmere. It's strong but noble with perfect form and beauty. All in harmony. A fabulous wine that everyone who loves Bordeaux should have a bottle or case of.

by JS, James Suckling , 2013

Wine Enthusiast 96

A grand wine, it has great ripeness and richness, majestic in its structure and upright character. It is concentrated, perfumed and opulent. The style of Ducru Beaucaillou is both generous and powerful, and obviously ageworthy.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2013

Wine Spectator 97

Not shy at all, with a flamboyant, aromatic profile of roasted apple wood and warm ganache, featuring more than enough stuffing in the form of thickly layered blackberry paste, steeped fig and pastis-soaked plum flavors. The structure is massive but incredibly polished, and the fruit displays terrific purity through the graphite-supported finish. Large-scale and extremely well-rendered. Best from 2020 through 2040.

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2013

Wine Advocate 98+

With loads of minerality, a terrific opaque purple color, and slightly more structure and tannin than either Poyferre or St.-Pierre (and that’s saying something), this is a blockbuster, fabulous Ducru Beaucaillou that should be at its best a good decade from now and last 40-50 years. The proprietor is not alone in thinking this is the finest Ducru Beaucaillou since the 1961. The classic wet rock, creme de cassis, subtle oak and gravelly stoniness of the vineyard come through in this spectacular, full-bodied, gorgeously pure and intense effort. This is wine for the ages that should be forgotten for at least a decade.

by RP, Wine Advocate , 2013

Technical Details

Tasting notes

Color: Profound dark violet robe
Nose: Notes of black fruits with a hint of spices.
Palate: Round and luscious,with an imposing structure, fleshy but nicely buttressed by acidity. Velvety and suave tannins.
Finish fleshy and impressively persistent.
This wine rebounds constantly during the course of the tasting and seems never inclined to let go. Consider it as a good companion who, without ever faltering, takes you by the hand and walks pleasantly by your side up to the frontiers of the sublime and perhaps even beyond!

Wine

The sample presented to you is taken from the final blend prepared during the first term of 2011.
This wine will be aged 18 months in new oak barrels for 95% and for the rest in 1-year old barrels. All our barrels are made of French oak (certified origin) that is left to dry naturally outdoors. Regular topping-ups are carried out during the first 6 months of ageing. The wines are racked every two or three months and under go some seven rackings during the ageing process. They are fined following the traditional method, with egg whites (from biodynamic farming). Bottling is done under sterile conditions; the bottles are sparged with inert gas before and after filling. Only first quality natural 54 mm-corks are used. our bottles are laser-engraved with the name "Ducru-Beaucaillou" and bear a label that includes a hologram.