Croix de Beaucaillou 2024

Croix de Beaucaillou 2024

St-Julien

Bordeaux, France

Regular price£148.00
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Arriving: Spring 2027

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Style: Red Packaging: OWC
ABV: 13.8% Closure: Cork
Organic: Drink from: 2030
Biodynamic: Drink to: 2042
Grapes: 65% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot
Critic scores
87-89 RP, 91-93 NM, 90-92 AG, 93-94 JS, 90-92 JD, 92 JA, 92 DC, 91-93 JL, 91-93 DB, 92-94 YB
Critic reviews
"With a delicate, gently spicy bouquet of cassis, cassis blossoms and raspberries, the 2024 La Croix de Beaucaillou offers a moderately weighted palate built around firm, structuring tannins and a vibrant core of fruit with a lively, energetic mid-palate that reflects the early-picked Merlot, lending freshness and lift to this well-defined, elegant cuvée."
Yohan Castaing, April 2025, RobertParker.com

"The 2024 La Croix Ducru-Beaucaillou matured in two-thirds new oak this year, the usual percentage. It has a precise bouquet with blackberry, wild strawberry and background slate-like aromas. This is finely focused, though more understated than recent vintages. The palate is medium-bodied and quite peppery, with grainy tannins, gentle grip and a slightly stony finish. This is a more linear and classically styled Deuxième Vin that will deserve two or three years in bottle."
Neal Martin, April 2025, Vinous.com

"The 2024 La Croix Ducru-Beaucaillou is an absolute delight. Pliant and supple, with gorgeous mid-palate creaminess, the 2024 is accessible right out of the gate. Black cherry, plum, chocolate, new leather and spice all flesh out in the glass. Soft, succulent contours wrap it all together. There's terrific depth here, and plenty of substance too. This Merlot-based Saint-Julien offers tons of forward appeal."
Antonio Galloni, April 2025, Vinous.com

"Very pure and minerally, with good depth of fruit, fresh dark cherries and berries. Almost full-bodied, with lots of fine-grained tannins that get chalky. Structured and quite long. A good, dense expression from the vintage. 65% merlot, 32% cabernet sauvignon and 3% petit verdot."
James Suckling, May 2025, JamesSuckling.com

"A big jump up in depth and quality on the aromatics from Madame de Beaucaillou, here you get unmistakable mid palate weight and texture, with juice and salinity on the finish, 3.7pH. Harvest 23 September to 8 October. 60% new oak (in 2022 it was at 80%). Good stuff from the Ducru team, delivering an earlier drinking vintage of this wine that maintains estate signature."
Jane Anson, April 2025, JaneAnson.com

Critics

AG
Antonio Galloni, vinous.com
AM
Allan Meadows, Burghound.com
DC
Decanter, Decanter.com
GM
Gus McLean, AbingdonFineWine.com
JA
Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com
JD
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com
JR
Jancis Robinson, JancisRobinson.com
JS
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com
LPB
Lisa Perrotti-Brown, TheWineIndependent.com
NM
Neal Martin, RobertParker.com
RP
Various, RobertParker.com
TA
Tim Atkin, TimAtkin.com
VM
Various, vinous.com

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