2020 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Grand Cru Classé St Julien

The Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2020 is a very beautiful St Julien with a refined minerality, a great opaque purple color. This is a blockbuster and fabulous Ducru Beaucaillou which should be bottle matured for another 8 years and will drink very nicely from 2028 to 2060+. The Ducru-Beaucaillou 2020 is a blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19% Merlot, which has matured for approximately 18 months in 100% new barrels. Colored opaque purple-black, the nose slowly unfolds to reveal tantalizing scents of crushed blackcurrants, wild blueberries and boysenberries and with some swirls in the glass we smell chocolate mint, star anise, roses and unsmoked cigars with a hint of cedar wood. The medium-bodied palate delivers impressive, muscular black fruit with a firm frame of ripe, fine-grained tannins and seamless freshness, with a long and fragrant finish.

FACT: In the 'Attachments' tab you will find the official fact sheet of this beautiful wine. We will send this to you automatically when you order this wine. The wine is stored in our conditioned Wine Warehouse and if you pick up the wine you will often receive a nice discount . You will see your discount immediately when you choose 'Collect' on the checkout page. We are located in Dordrecht almost next to the A16 with plenty of parking. Click here for our address.  

The Historic Label

In celebration of its tercentenary, Château Ducru-Beaucaillou has reinvented its historic label. At once elegant and sophisticated, decisively modern and audaciously disruptive, the new design nevertheless maintains continuity with the estate's history and centuries-old values, striking a magnificent balance between the classic and the contemporary in an expression of joy and liberty.

Capturing the brilliance, perspectives, and energy of the 2020 vintage, the design is the result of a holistic approach to the aesthetics of the bottle and the wine within. A true aficionado of contemporary art, Bruno-Eugène Borie explains his affinities:

“It was our conviction that the creation of this ephemeral label designed expressly for Château Ducru-Beaucaillou's three hundredth vintage had to be seen as an event in and of itself. It was necessarily inspired by a kind of poetic rebirth of Ducru-Beaucaillou's legendary label, which had remained unchanged since its creation by the Johnstons in 1870. This new design recalls major art movements and techniques of the twentieth century: abstract art, collage, destruction - tured forms, and new realism.”

The playful yet deliberate design is reminiscent of lacerated works of art, and the triple collage of the Victorian tower from the château's southern façade incarnates the estate's three centuries of existence and the three generations of the Borie family to helm Château Ducru-Beaucaillou. Like a series of triptychs or ripple effects, they lend resonance to the dazzling illuminations of those inspired beings who have from one era to the next sublimated this most exceptional wine as they sought out myriad expressions of the spirit and celebrations of the ineffable.

Pure and modern, the tricentenary logotype appears in enameled orange characters on the bottle's shoulder, just above the label. The upper part of the neck is sealed with wax embossed with the estate's seal in its signature orange hue, a color that evokes Orient, Asia and the Palladian art forms that the Johnstons held dear. It is a design in which the present and the past come together in the pursuit of excellence, a feast for the eyes that is a fitting prelude to the delights of the precious nectar within.