Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
Le Petit Ducru Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend
St. Julien, Médoc, Bordeaux, France
It is time for some Merlot on this #MerlotThursday. Let's bring Merlot back!
Dark ruby/ purple in color with a purplish rim.
Light nose of red fruits with chocolate notes.
Medium bodied with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with blueberries, black plums, cooked cherries, spices, light oak, chocolates and peppercorn.
Medium finish with fine grained tannins and tangy raspberries.
This 4 year old Merlot from Saint Julien is drinking nicely now. Showing mild complexity and fruit forward.
A good quality Second Wine. Would be nice to revisit it in 3 years.
Easy drinking and good by itself or with food. Will pair nicely with BBQ Meats.
A blend of 80% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Petit Verdot. Aged in French oak barrels for 12 months.
13% alcohol by volume.
89 points.
$40.
It is time for some Merlot on this #MerlotThursday. Let's bring Merlot back!
Dark ruby/ purple in color with a purplish rim.
Light nose of red fruits with chocolate notes.
Medium bodied with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with blueberries, black plums, cooked cherries, spices, light oak, chocolates and peppercorn.
Medium finish with fine grained tannins and tangy raspberries.
This 4 year old Merlot from Saint Julien is drinking nicely now. Showing mild complexity and fruit forward.
A good quality Second Wine. Would be nice to revisit it in 3 years.
Easy drinking and good by itself or with food. Will pair nicely with BBQ Meats.
A blend of 80% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Petit Verdot. Aged in French oak barrels for 12 months.
13% alcohol by volume.
89 points.
$40.
Damn good bottle of wine..
Edit… came back as I couldn’t stop thinking about this bottle all night.
California wines were my ‘gateway drug’. I moved away from these wines as I learned about and tried the many many varietals around the world. Ultimately, I fell in love with the quality and, frankly, accessibility of Italian wines. Over the last 5 or 10 years i’ve tried many Italians, travelled to and gotten to know the regions reasonably well. Italy vino is my thing.
But French wine… it eludes me. I know there are great wines — maybe the best. But the country is so large, the regions and varieties so diverse, the price, sometimes too discouraging, that I simply haven’t learned enough about the wines to know my way around the offerings or how to find the wines I love.
But… I know they are there. I’ve had my share. And just how “every now and then a squirrel finds a nut”, so to do I, from time to time find my way to a great French bottle to remind me I’ve leveled up.
This bottle, for me, was one of those reminders. I actually opened it by accident. While bummed it had no age, I was so happy to drink it. I’ll probably buy a few more to cellar… and, yeah, will probably now spend a little more time and money brushing up on my French…
Damn good bottle of wine..
Edit… came back as I couldn’t stop thinking about this bottle all night.
California wines were my ‘gateway drug’. I moved away from these wines as I learned about and tried the many many varietals around the world. Ultimately, I fell in love with the quality and, frankly, accessibility of Italian wines. Over the last 5 or 10 years i’ve tried many Italians, travelled to and gotten to know the regions reasonably well. Italy vino is my thing.
But French wine… it eludes me. I know there are great wines — maybe the best. But the country is so large, the regions and varieties so diverse, the price, sometimes too discouraging, that I simply haven’t learned enough about the wines to know my way around the offerings or how to find the wines I love.
But… I know they are there. I’ve had my share. And just how “every now and then a squirrel finds a nut”, so to do I, from time to time find my way to a great French bottle to remind me I’ve leveled up.
This bottle, for me, was one of those reminders. I actually opened it by accident. While bummed it had no age, I was so happy to drink it. I’ll probably buy a few more to cellar… and, yeah, will probably now spend a little more time and money brushing up on my French…