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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 06 March 2025

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 12 February 2025

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 28 January 2025

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 05 October 2023

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 28 April 2023

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 04 April 2023