Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou

St Julien 2nd Growth 2012

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  Vintage 2012
  92 points

Tasted blind at the Bordeaux 2012 Southwold tasting. The 2012 Ducru Beaucaillou was broody and stubborn on the nose: the fruit remaining off-stage while earthy, leathery notes take the limelight. The palate is medium-bodied with quite a tart entry, a keen line of acidity here that lends this energy, a sense of frisson. It settles down as it approaches the finish, gaining harmony all the time with a smooth, lightly spiced finish that lingers in the mouth. It needs time but it will repay you. Tasted January 2016.

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  Vintage 2012
  93 points

Deep colour. Intense cassis, blackcurrant, vanilla, malt aromas. Concentrated and juicy with black currant, black olive flavours, pippy fine grained tannins/ textures. Finishes cedary firm. Bouyant but quite linear. Elegant style (Barrel)