La Croix Ducru Beaucaillou, St Julien, 2024
A nice bouquet of forest fruits, liquorice, and cassis greets the nose of the 2024 Croix de Beaucaillou. Generous and juicy on the mid-palate, it offers plenty of substance with dark fruit inflected with gravelly minerals and a touch of kirsch. Powerful tannins provide a frame, but there's ample mid-palate fruit to support them. There’s good tension and length here. Polished and juicy, with quite an exotic and ripe character.
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Deep garnet-purple in color. Pops from the glass with notes of black and red cherries, graphite, and raspberry pie with a touch of wild sage. The medium-bodied palate delivers lightly chewy tannins and great tension supporting the black and red berry layers, finishing minerally.
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 <em>Deuxième Vin</em> that will deserve two or three years in bottle.
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.
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 cuvee.
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