Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2022

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82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot L’intensité du fruit annonce d’emblée de la fraîcheur et du plaisir ! Nuances florales, minérales et épicées complétées par des parfums de griottes et de sureau ! En bouche le vin assure avec sérénité… comme il l’a régulièrement fait au cours de nombreux millésimes. Il ne veut pas briller par son exubérance mais bien plus par sa subtilité, par son aptitude à s’imposer au travers de sa finesse, sa pertinence et son harmonie. Ainsi les tannins sont porteurs et fins tout en conférant une fine amertume qui ne fait que bonifier la persistance de la finale. Ducru a su une fois de plus se surpasser, une fois de plus tout remettre en question avec pour finalité de non seulement défier les conclusions hâtives liées à 2022 mais en plus de rappeler à quel point Ducru sait se profiler dans les nombreux contextes qu’il a traversés au fil des décennies. Un vin serein, éblouissant, fin, puissant, élégant et attachant 2028-2055.

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Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2022 takes you to the heights of sublime balance. On one hand, the sweltering heat of 2022 gives rise to fervent flames; on the other, the inherent character of Château Ducru-Beaucaillou exudes a surge of passion. Remarkably, when these two powerful forces meet, they transform into a gentle, blue flame, so mild that you could even touch its incandescent core. The signature mulberry and black goji berry flavors dance amidst a backdrop of licorice, clove, and orange stem. As the opulent wine graces your taste buds, it immediately shifts into a refreshing, delicate caress. Who could resist such an enchantingly alluring wine, free from pretense or affectation? In my view, the vintage of 2022 is a timeless masterpiece that stands shoulder to shoulder with Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2010.

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Some much creme de cassis and blackcurrant aromas and flavors here. Full-bodied with powerful tannins, yet fine and layered. Chewy. You can really feel the thick grape skins here. Excellent length. Tannins spread across the palate. Minerally and crushed stone.

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Beautiful and beguiling nose, perfumed blackcurrants and dark fruits; damsons, plums, raspberries and rose petals. Lovely crunchy fruit, real bite and presence in the mouth. Excellent precision, tannins are succulent and ripe they fill the mouth with a juicy, intense granular texture. There is such depth to this - perfume, tobacco, earth, violets and concentrated fruits that have a verticality to them with an unprecedented 98% of Cabernet Sauvignon providing the support and the backbone. There is a crystalline purity to the fruit giving tension to the overall frame, it’s focused and driven all with excellent definition. This is not a wallflower of a wine - it’s charming and confident, strutting its stuff right now and giving you absolut St-Julien terroir and vintage markers in the glass with slate, graphite and liquorice salinity on show. Skilled winemaking on show. Georgina Hindle.

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One of the Médoc's most powerful wines this year is the 2022 Ducru-Beaucaillou, a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon and 18% Merlot that opens in the glass with aromas of dark cherries and berries mingled with pencils shavings, vanilla pod and spices. Full-bodied, broad-shouldered and muscular, with a core of ripe but lively fruit underpinned by a chassis of powdery, liberally extracted tannin that asserts itself on the finish, it's a punchy, modern Saint-Julien reminiscent of a hypothetical blend of the 2018 and 2020. William Kelley.

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82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot. Cask sample. Deep colour – purple-black to the rim. Cassis and blueberry fragrance with a toasted oak edge. Smoky and minerally as well. Smooth texture with a generous quantity of tannin behind. Concentrated, polished and long. Has the potential but needs time. James Lawther MW.