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Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint Julien 1986

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SKU:1011401-1

Bottle: 1
Size: 750ml
Color: Red
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  • BRAND

    Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou
  • COUNTRY

    France
  • REGION

    Bordeaux
  • Size

    750ml

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From the bottle, it has an attractive bouquet with plush blackberry and wild strawberry fruit, indeed, showing more fruité than I was expecting. There is a roundness to these aromatics, perhaps a little more like 1985 in some ways. The palate is medium-bodied and here the seriousness and structure of the 1986 vintages shows through.

There is impressive body and though it felt firm and masculine on the finish, there is clearly sufficient fruit that counterbalances the backbone. The decanted version showed a little more volatility on the nose, but here I discerned more complexity on the palate. The 1986 Ducru poured directly from bottle felt a little more savory and strangely, more cohesive, with more of the terroir coming through on the slightly loamy, brown sugar-tinged finish.