1994 Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou (750ml)

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Vintage: 1994
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou
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Appellation: St. Julien
Producer: Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou
Varietal: Red Bordeaux Blend
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Sub-Region: Medoc

Tasting note: Offers a goodly amount of ripe fruit and dried cherry flavors, well balanced for the vintage, medium, round tannins and a fruity finish. Drink or hold. (87pts JS, Wine Spectator)

Tasted: Jan 31, 1997
Score: 87
Drink: N/A

Tasting note: Ducru-Beaucaillou experienced an uncharacteristically shaky period between 1986 and 1990. The winemaking did not suffer, but the inconsistency from bottle to bottle (too many wines exhibited a musty, wet cardboard-like aroma), is history. The construction of a new cellar and replacement of every barrel has guaranteed the conditions necessary to produce trouble free wines. Ducru is on a roll, with fine efforts over recent vintages, including an exceptional 1994, spectacular 1995, and what looks to be an equally profound, super-concentrated 1996. A top-notch effort in this vintage, Ducru-Beaucaillou's 1994 displays a dark purple color, a textbook, cassis, mineral, licorice, and floral-scented nose, medium body, outstanding extract and purity, moderate tannin, and a persuasively rich, sweet, spicy finish. Everything is well-integrated (including the tannin). This should prove to be a classic St.-Julien. (94pts RP, Wine Advocate)

Tasted: Feb. 1998
Score: 94
Drink: Now-2022