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Petit Ducru (2nd wine Ducru Beaucaillou) 2022
St Julien
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Good structure and concentration without being too much, this is an excellent Petit Ducru that is easy to recommend. Cocoa bean and damson, attractive fennel spice, a note I am finding a lot in 2022, reflection of the intensity and small berries, where bitterness replaces acidity in many cases for the balance of the wine. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2040 Date: 06 March 2025 |
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The 2022 Le Petit Ducru de Ducru-Beaucaillou has an open bouquet with touches of chalk infusing the black fruit. Aeration uncovers more red fruit tones with hints of graphite. The palate is medium-bodied with quite strict tannins, a clear level up from the "Madame" cuvée. It has more precision and tension emanating from the finish. This is very fine. Score: 91 Neal Martin, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2040 Date: 12 February 2025 |
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The 2022 Le Petit Ducru is bursting with inky dark red/blue fruit, new leather, spice tobacco, graphite, mocha and espresso. This bold, juicy Saint-Julien offers tons of immediacy, as the Merlot was especially ripe. Le Petit Ducru is quite the extrovert, but it has good structure, too. Score: 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 Date: 28 January 2025 |
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Coming from the western side of Saint-Julien and functioning basically as a third wine of Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, the 2022 Petit Ducru De Ducru-Beaucaillou is 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Petit Verdot raised in a mix of new and used barrels. A beautiful wine, it has plenty of Saint-Julien elegance and purity as well as cassis-driven fruits, notes of violet, spicy oak, and scorched earth, medium to full body, and just a silky, elegant mouthfeel. It's going to drink nicely right out of the gate. Score: 90 - 92 Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Date: 05 October 2023 |
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The 2022 Le Petit Ducru has turned out especially well this year, offering up aromas of cherries and raspberries mingled with tobacco leaf and pencil shavings, followed by a medium to full-bodied, velvety and fleshy palate that's unusually supple and polished. Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Date: 28 April 2023 |
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The fine tannins come through clearly here with black berries and hints of lavender. Medium-bodied with really fine tannins. Medium finish. A blend 75% merlot, 20% cabernet sauvignon and rest petit verdot. Score: 92 - 93 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Date: 04 April 2023 |
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