Château Ducru Beaucaillou 1995

Saint-Julien, 2ème Grand Cru Classé

This wine is of first-growth quality, not only from an intellectual perspective, but in its hedonistic characteristics. More open-knit and accessible than the extraordinary 1996, Ducru's 1995 exhibits a saturated ruby/purple color, followed by a knock-out nose of blueberry and black raspberry/cassis fruit intertwined with minerals, flowers, and subtle toasty new oak. Like its younger sibling, the wine possesses a sweet, rich mid-palate (from extract and ripeness, not sugar), layers of flavor, good delineation and grip, but generally unobtrusive tannin and acidity. It is a classic, compelling example of Ducru-Beaucaillou that should not be missed. Anticipated maturity: 2003-2025. 94 points.

It should be obvious to readers of my preliminary reports on both the 1995 and 1996 vintages that the family of Jean-Eugene Borie produced some of the greatest wines ever made at their respective chateaux - Ducru-Beaucaillou, Grand-Puy-Lacoste, and Haut-Batailley - in both 1995 and 1996. That has been confirmed once again in the bottled 1995s, and in the evolution of the powerhouse 1996s.
(Robert Parker, Wine Advocate # 115, February 1998)

Served at the chateau at their Vinexpo banquet from magnum, this remains an impressive ’95 with many more years ahead. That ripe, opulent, peppermint tinged nose is beginning to display greater mineralite, real essence of crushed stones underlying that boysenberry and briary fruit. The palate is medium-bodied, very well balanced, opulent and extravagant, beginning to shed its puppy fat to reveal a complexity of flavours: red-berried fruit, cedar, tobacco, vanilla, cranberry and pomegranate and then turning volte face with a more masculine finish that the entry was suggesting. The Cabernet is certainly driving this along at the moment, but give it another 5-6 years. Drink 2012-2025+ Tasted June 2009. 94 points.
(Neal Martin, Wine Journal, July 2010)

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