Robert Parker 100 Points: “The 2009 Ducru Beaucaillou will eclipse the brilliant wines produced in 2005, 2003 and 2000. It will be interesting to see how the 2009 fares against the 2010 after twenty years of aging, but my money is on the 2009. A blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot that achieved 13.5% natural alcohol, this inky purple, unctuous wine possesses classic aromas of graphite, creme de cassis, blueberries, violets, licorice and Christmas fruitcake. Full-bodied and intense with Ducru’s inimitable elegance and purity, it should firm up in the bottle after 7-10 years of cellaring and last for 40-50 years. Magnificent! __Bruno Borie has done a remarkable job at Ducru Beaucaillou.”
Jeb Dunnuck 100 Points: The 2009 Ducru-Beaucaillou is pure perfection and a much more sexy, opulent wine compared to the 2010. Crème de cassis, licorice, spice-box, lead pencil shavings and dried flower notes all – literally – soar from the glass of this incredible wine. Full-bodied, layered, expansive and deep, with sweet, sweet tannin and no hard edges, it’s already impossible to resist, yet is going to keep for four to five decades. I think the 2010 will be a longer-lived wine, but I’m not sure it will ever deliver the opulence or hedonistic pleasure of the 2009. Either way, that’s a fun comparison I look forward to having over the coming decades!
Rene Gabriel 20 Points:»» 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot. Extremely dark purple with lilac and violet reflections. For a Ducru, the bouquet is quite powerful, but that doesn't mean there's a lot of pressure here; even as a barrel sample, it already smells of black cherries, blackberry jelly, truffles, cedar, and black currant, with noble sweetness and everything very refined in its approach. Perfect, fine-silky palate, with lots of melt on the outside, inside with a delicate-peppery breed, lots of liquorice and Sichuan pepper in the thick, fat extract; in the finish, everything turns "black" in terms of aroma. A full tannin package, but somehow it digests it through its unprecedentedly high alcohol content. It's "only" 13.5% – but something like this has never happened in the history of this estate. And even the cellar master René Lucceau can't remember a harvest of this quality. And he's been at Ducru for 31 years already. A Beaucaillou legend!12: Saturated, dark wine red, still with a lilac shimmer. The bouquet was initially a bit restrained, but then it took off. As dramatic as a young Ducru has rarely shown itself, an aroma wheel of plums, Assam tea, vanilla bean, dark noble woods, all wrapped in an intoxicating Cabernet sweetness. On the palate, coated on the outside with the vintage-typical wine fat, which underscores the perfect harmony. In the finish, bundled and extremely long. This is the fattest Ducru that's ever hit my palate. Costs around 300 francs today. You can also pay significantly more for other Bordeaux. But this one unquestionably gets the maximum score. (20/20). 13: Medium-dark, somewhat lighter than directly comparable wines of the vintage, lots of garnet, delicately lilac at the rim. The nose is entirely typical Ducru: ripe plums, cedar wood, fine pepper notes and noble woods, behind it full-bodied through a nuance of milk coffee. A bouquet with royal conversation, subtle, educated, lingering. On the palate, one finds a harmony like no other; everything is in the right place, the tannins of delicate ripeness and perfection. A dream dancer; here you never get the idea that we're talking about an overloaded vintage. Is this the possible "best Ducru ever"? It's safe to assume! 20/20”
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