2022 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Grand Cru Classé St Julien

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The Borie family has now owned this stately château for three generations, overlooking the Gironde. Bruno Borie has had one goal since he took over the château in 2003: to make Ducru-Beaucaillou one of the best wines of the Médoc. The vineyards are planted with cabernet-sauvignon (70%) and merlot (30%). As the name of the château indicates, Château Ducru-Beaucaillou is blessed with a great gravelly terroir that produces perfect Cabernet-Sauvignon. Château Ducru-Beaucaillou takes its name from its "beautiful pebbles" ("beaux Cailloux", in French) which geologists less romantically refer to as Gunzian gravel. These quartz pebbles were deposited by the ancient Garonne at the beginning of the early Quaternary, about two million years ago. It is enough to take a walk through the vineyards to make rich lithological finds. Lydian jasper from the Pyrenees, flint, quartz, agatoids... This Gunzian gravel ensures soils poor in plant nutrients. But it is precisely their agricultural scarcity that guarantees the qualitative excellence of the wines. A choice from nature.

At Ducru-Beaucaillou, excellence is shaped inch by inch thanks to a good understanding of what the vines have to offer. Experience, intuition, asking questions, for a symbiosis with Mother Earth; people only pass through these noble terroirs. Since nature is a "subject of the law", every procedure in the vineyard respects the entire ecosystem: herbicides have been abandoned in favor of mechanical weeding and judicious turf; replacing chemical fertilizers with manure and quality compost; insecticides with pheromones to control vine moths or kaolin clay to attract the green locust. Measures to facilitate aeration and sun exposure of the bunches, to avoid Botrytis and, if applicable, bacilli. Constant monitoring of the available nitrogen before harvest. Reasonable viticulture, which in 2016 earned the property ISO 14001 certification, supplemented since 2017 by HVE3 certification (high environmental value level 3).

2022 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou is a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon and 18% Merlot. The wine has matured for 18 months in French barrels. The wine opens in the glass with aromas of dark cherries and berries mixed with pencil shavings, vanilla pod and spices. Full, broad-shouldered and muscular, with a core of ripe but lively fruit, supported by a chassis of powdery, generously extracted tannin that asserts itself in the finish.

FACT : In the Tab: Appendix you will find the official fact sheet of this beautiful wine. We will send it to you automatically when you order this wine. The wine is stored in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you pick up the wine you will often receive a nice discount. You will immediately see the possible discount if you choose Pickup in the Checkout page. We are almost next to the Rijksweg with plenty of parking. Click here for address.