Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2025
St-Julien 2ème Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£540.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.4% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2035 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2065 |
| Grapes: 79% Cabernet Sauvignon; 21% Merlot | |
Critic scores
96-99 AG, 96-97 JS, 97-99 JD, 97-99 LPB, 97 JA, 98 DC, 98-100 JL, 95-97 DB, 99-100 YB
Critic reviews
"The 2025 Ducru-Beaucaillou is fabulous. Vibrant red/purplish fruit, rose petal, lavender, mint and blood orange are all beautifully sculpted. The purity of the fruit is just remarkable. New oak is 100%, but lower toast levels and a more dialed-in approach here are palpable. Gorgeous floral and savory Cabernet top notes lift the finish. Superb, and one of the highlights of the year, Ducru is absolutely stunning in 2025."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Stunning, nuanced, and just full of joy. Reserved flesh, toasted cumin, fresh blueberries and raspberries with rich seams of cassis, fresh pomegranate, and cappuccino, this is very Ducru in its width and breadth, but with a freshness and lift that is very much of the 2025 vintage. Almost certainly this will close down for a number of years, but all is well controlled, with quiet confidence. A wine you will be happy to spend a lot of time with. 3.74 pH. Harvest September 2 to 23, 100% new oak. Bruno Borie owner."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Such a vivid and vibrant colour in the glass with a bright pink rim. Ripe almost heady aromatics – perfumed bramble fruits with a dried floral aspect and dark chocolate. Ripe and massy in the mouth, not as sexy and smooth as Ducru can be, this is more grainy and a little grippy with the tannins and structure clearly on show and dark fruit in the background. Serious, sultry even, with oak on show – liquorice and clove spice. The aromatic display is quite incredible, certainly full of intensity but this hasn't settled yet. Mouthwatering acidity, great tannin structure, there’s a lot going on with this wine. Ends cool and fresh and lifted. I love the intensity, quite unlike many other wines this vintage – this is built like a racehorse, muscular and filling but chewy and soft too. I love the personality and think this wine has a long life ahead. There’s purity, clarity and gloss. 3.74pH. A yield of 22hl/ha. Harvest 2–23 September. "
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Julien; 79% Cabernet Sauvignon; 21% Merlot; a final yield of 22 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at the property). Brilliant. Old school. Big, bold, punchy. Black cherry, mulberry, bramble and black berry - and, with aeration, a little cassis and blueberry too. Mimosa, violet, iris and peony. This is as floral a vintage as I can remember here. If La Croix is cashmere, this is velvet! Ducru is composed of broad layers beautifully delineated by the pixilating tannins. Fleshy and long, with lots of liquorice on the finish. This is very lifted for a wine so dense and compact. Indeed, it's gravity-defying. A lovely expression of this terroir, very authentic and true to the signature of Ducru over the years but with greater finesse I find. The last vintage to be made in the old cellar."
Colin Hay, May 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Stunning, nuanced, and just full of joy. Reserved flesh, toasted cumin, fresh blueberries and raspberries with rich seams of cassis, fresh pomegranate, and cappuccino, this is very Ducru in its width and breadth, but with a freshness and lift that is very much of the 2025 vintage. Almost certainly this will close down for a number of years, but all is well controlled, with quiet confidence. A wine you will be happy to spend a lot of time with. 3.74 pH. Harvest September 2 to 23, 100% new oak. Bruno Borie owner."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Such a vivid and vibrant colour in the glass with a bright pink rim. Ripe almost heady aromatics – perfumed bramble fruits with a dried floral aspect and dark chocolate. Ripe and massy in the mouth, not as sexy and smooth as Ducru can be, this is more grainy and a little grippy with the tannins and structure clearly on show and dark fruit in the background. Serious, sultry even, with oak on show – liquorice and clove spice. The aromatic display is quite incredible, certainly full of intensity but this hasn't settled yet. Mouthwatering acidity, great tannin structure, there’s a lot going on with this wine. Ends cool and fresh and lifted. I love the intensity, quite unlike many other wines this vintage – this is built like a racehorse, muscular and filling but chewy and soft too. I love the personality and think this wine has a long life ahead. There’s purity, clarity and gloss. 3.74pH. A yield of 22hl/ha. Harvest 2–23 September. "
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Julien; 79% Cabernet Sauvignon; 21% Merlot; a final yield of 22 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at the property). Brilliant. Old school. Big, bold, punchy. Black cherry, mulberry, bramble and black berry - and, with aeration, a little cassis and blueberry too. Mimosa, violet, iris and peony. This is as floral a vintage as I can remember here. If La Croix is cashmere, this is velvet! Ducru is composed of broad layers beautifully delineated by the pixilating tannins. Fleshy and long, with lots of liquorice on the finish. This is very lifted for a wine so dense and compact. Indeed, it's gravity-defying. A lovely expression of this terroir, very authentic and true to the signature of Ducru over the years but with greater finesse I find. The last vintage to be made in the old cellar."
Colin Hay, May 2026, DrinksBusiness.com