Ducru Beaucaillou - St. Julien (Futures Estimated Arrival Fall 2025) 2022 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $265.00
| Producer | Ducru Beaucaillou |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Saint-Julien |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blends |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 1005919 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 97-98 Points
13 Apr 2023 ? 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.
Jeb Dunnuck: 97-99 Points
Moving to the Grand Vin it's a slightly more Merlot-influenced blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon and 18% Merlot raised in new barrels. It brings the same level of concentration and structure as the La Croix but has another level of class elegance and purity with sensational aromatics of crème de cassis graphite crushed stone sandalwood and graphite. The purity here is truly remarkable and it hits the palate with full-bodied richness perfectly integrated oak silky tannins and a great finish. This beauty hit 14% natural alcohol with a pH of 3.8 and an IPT of 95. Given its balance as well as its texture it's going to offer pleasure with just short-term cellaring yet also evolve for decades.
vVinous: 95-97 Points
The 2022 Ducru-Beaucaillou is elegant and nuanced. Bright red/purplish fruit rose petal blood orange mint and spice give the 2022 unusual brilliance. In most recent vintages Ducru has been on the opulent side. The 2022 on the other hand is strict and linear in construction a wine that is more about persistence than size. Bright saline underpinnings extend the mid-palate into the striking beaming finish. Harvest took place over four weeks the longest ever as opposed to the two weeks or so that is the norm. Yields were 30hL per hectare down from the 35-37 typical in recent years.
Wine Advocate: 94-96 Points
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.
