Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2021

Dégusté le 01.12.2023 par Yves Beck 98% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Merlot Avec 98% de Cabernet Sauvignon, Ducru-Beaucaillou 2021 compte le pourcentage de ce cépage le plus élevé de l’histoire de la propriété. C’est également le pourcentage le plus élevé de 2021 parmi les Crus Classés du Médoc. Le bouquet joue entre le végétal frais, le fruit et les épices. Il se positionne de manière subtile et précise, à l’image de l’attaque et de la structure tannique. Le vin peut se targuer de sa puissance, de la tension conférée par l’acidité et par le potentiel de garde qui en découle. Un vin de caractère qui aura besoin de temps pour s’épanouir, mais qui revendique déjà son appartenance au cercle des belles réussites du millésime. Que de tonus et de perspectives ! 2027-2056. Décembre 2023.

Almost entirely Cabernet, this wine is packed with aromatic black-currant fruits. It is impressively rich with solid tannins and black plum, walnut and berry flavors. Drink this powerful wine from 2028 at the earliest. Roger Voss. January 2024.

Firm, structured and pure with a cool and solid core of dark currants, blackberries, tar, pencil lead and bitter chocolate. Hints of tobacco, too. Firm but silky tannins. Very pure, with a long, mineral finish. Intense and very focused. 98% cabernet sauvignon and 2% merlot. 96-97/100. May 2022.

A wine that will delight Médoc purists, the 2021 Ducru-Beaucaillou is a blend of fully 98% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Merlot and checks in at a mere 12.5% alcohol. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries, cigar wrapper, violets, loamy soil and spices, it's full-bodied, layered and velvety, with superb depth at the core, lively acids and powdery tannins. Complete and penetrating, it's a true classic, reminiscent of a modern-day version of Ducru's brilliant 1996—though today's precision winemaking means that the 2021 is unlikely to go through so long a hibernation as that vintage. William Kelley. April 2022.

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 focussed 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. Drinking window: 2027-2050. Georgina Hindle. April 2022.