Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint Julien Grand Cru 2009 (Bordeaux, Saint Julien, France) - [RP 100] [JS 97] [WS 96] [WE 96] [ST 95+]

Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint Julien Grand Cru 2009
(Bordeaux, Saint Julien, France) - [RP 100] [JS 97] [WS 96] [WE 96] [ST 95+]


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About This Wine:
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!

The 2009 Ducru-Beaucaillou is a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot.

 

Ratings & Reviews

100 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"The 2009 Ducru Beaucaillou will eclipse the brilliant wines produced in 2005, 2003 and 2000. It will be interesting to see how the 2009 fares against the 2010 after twenty years of aging, but my money is on the 2009. A blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot that achieved 13.5% natural alcohol, this inky purple, unctuous wine possesses classic aromas of graphite, creme de cassis, blueberries, violets, licorice and Christmas fruitcake. Full-bodied and intense with Ducru's inimitable elegance and purity, it should firm up in the bottle after 7-10 years of cellaring and last for 40-50 years. Magnificent!" - Robert Parker (Feb 2012)

97 Points - James Suckling:
"This has a crazy nose of ripe fruits and licorice, with orchids and lilacs. Full bodied, with round and creamy textures. This is soft, but ripe and rich with a great length that goes on for minutes. Owner Bruno Borie says that this is like listening to the blues, an emotional young wine. This is their best ever. Barrel sample." (December 2010)

96 Points - Wine Spectator:
"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." - JM (Mar 31, 2013)

96 Points - Wine Enthusiast:
"95-97 Barrel sample. Big and powerful, structured, with bitter chocolate and blackberry flavors. The wine is dense, the fruit enormous. But it does manage to keep freshness." - R.V. (8/9/2010)

95+ Points - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar:
"Inky ruby. Intense mineral high notes complement aromas of cassis, smoke and quinine on the deep, very pure nose. Then seamless and graceful in the mouth, with very smooth, glossy, ripe black fruit and mineral flavors lifted by bright harmonious acidity, which confers a sense of refinement to all the plush fruit. The very long finish shows a persistent note of violet. Though this is an atypically big and creamy Ducru, it manages a precise delivery of archetypical Saint-Julien flavors and refinement." - Ian D'Agata (Jul 12)