Le Petit Ducru 2022
St-Julien
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£332.66
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Arriving: In Stock
| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 14.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2028 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2035 |
| Grapes: 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot | |
Critic scores
90-92 RP, 91 NM, 92 AG, 94 JS, 90-92 JD, 16+ JR, 92 JA
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 has an open bouquet with touches of chalk infusing the black fruit. Aeration uncovers more red fruit tones with hints of graphite. The palate is medium-bodied with quite strict tannins, a clear level up from the "Madame" cuvée. It has more precision and tension emanating from the finish. This is very fine."
Neal Martin, February 2025, 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
"Good structure and concentration without being too much, this is an excellent Petit Ducru that is easy to recommend. Cocoa bean and damson, attractive fennel spice, a note I am finding a lot in 2022, reflection of the intensity and small berries, where bitterness replaces acidity in many cases for the balance of the wine."
Jane Anson, March 2025, 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 has an open bouquet with touches of chalk infusing the black fruit. Aeration uncovers more red fruit tones with hints of graphite. The palate is medium-bodied with quite strict tannins, a clear level up from the "Madame" cuvée. It has more precision and tension emanating from the finish. This is very fine."
Neal Martin, February 2025, 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
"Good structure and concentration without being too much, this is an excellent Petit Ducru that is easy to recommend. Cocoa bean and damson, attractive fennel spice, a note I am finding a lot in 2022, reflection of the intensity and small berries, where bitterness replaces acidity in many cases for the balance of the wine."
Jane Anson, March 2025, 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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