Le Petit Ducru
St-Julien 2022
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£272.00
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| Style: Red | Drink from: 2028 |
| ABV: 14.0% | Drink to: 2035 |
| Packaging: OWC | Stock arriving: In Stock |
Critic scores
90-92 RP, 89-91 NM, 92 AG, 92-93 JS, 16+ JR, 91 JA, 90-92 JD
Critic reviews
"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."
William Kelley, May 2023, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Le Petit Ducru de Ducru Beaucaillou, which includes declassified lots of the First and Second wine, has a svelte bouquet with plush red cherries, raspberry coulis, tobacco and light floral scents. The 43% new oak is neatly enmeshed. The palate is fresh and structured on the entry. This is quite Pauillac-like in style, thanks to the graphite element. It's taut and linear before fanning out toward the finish. This is an impressive Le Petit Ducru."
Neal Martin, April 2023, Vinous.com
"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."
Antonio Galloni, January 2025, Vinous.com
"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."
Jeb Dunnuck, May 2023, JebDunnuck.com
"Creamy generosity to the blackberry and cassis fruits, showing intensity and depth, knitted down right now, and with clear ageing potential and heavy black pepper spice. Tasted twice, this is an En Primeur wine to its boots, feels young and full of promise. 25ha on western side of St Julien (formerly Lalande Borie until 2018, plus sourcing from across the appellation), 3.77ph, IPT86, 43% new oak for ageing."
Jane Anson, April 2023, JaneAnson.com
"75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot. Cask sample. Crimson with a black core. Expressive with red- and dark-fruit notes, the Merlot component evident. Elegant touch and feel, the tannins finely honed. Flows easily over the tongue."
James Lawther, May 2023, JancisRobinson.com
William Kelley, May 2023, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Le Petit Ducru de Ducru Beaucaillou, which includes declassified lots of the First and Second wine, has a svelte bouquet with plush red cherries, raspberry coulis, tobacco and light floral scents. The 43% new oak is neatly enmeshed. The palate is fresh and structured on the entry. This is quite Pauillac-like in style, thanks to the graphite element. It's taut and linear before fanning out toward the finish. This is an impressive Le Petit Ducru."
Neal Martin, April 2023, Vinous.com
"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."
Antonio Galloni, January 2025, Vinous.com
"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."
Jeb Dunnuck, May 2023, JebDunnuck.com
"Creamy generosity to the blackberry and cassis fruits, showing intensity and depth, knitted down right now, and with clear ageing potential and heavy black pepper spice. Tasted twice, this is an En Primeur wine to its boots, feels young and full of promise. 25ha on western side of St Julien (formerly Lalande Borie until 2018, plus sourcing from across the appellation), 3.77ph, IPT86, 43% new oak for ageing."
Jane Anson, April 2023, JaneAnson.com
"75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot. Cask sample. Crimson with a black core. Expressive with red- and dark-fruit notes, the Merlot component evident. Elegant touch and feel, the tannins finely honed. Flows easily over the tongue."
James Lawther, May 2023, JancisRobinson.com
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