2022 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou La Croix de Beaucaillou
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| Type of Wine | Red |
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| Country | France |
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| Vintage | 2022 |
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| Content (Alc) | 0.75 ltr (14%) |
| Drink window | 2026 - 2058 |
Description
The wines of La Croix Ducru-Beaucaillou come from the vineyard of Château Ducru-Beaucaillou. This exceptional terroir of the Médoc is located between the Gironde river in the east, the centre and the west of the Saint-Julien appellation. The estate owes its name to its "beautiful pebbles" ("beaux cailloux", in French) which, due to their high quartz content, create soils that are poor in plant nutrients. It is precisely this "agrological" scarcity, as the late professor and geographer from Bordeaux, René Pijassou, described it, that makes them so suitable for the production of good wine. In the east, the plots are planted along the rolling Médoc ridges, just above the estuary, while those in the epicentre benefit from a microclimate fed by the small stream of La Mouline that meanders through the centre of the appellation from west to east before disappearing into the Gironde.
The La Croix Ducru-Beaucaillou 2022 is the 2nd wine of Château Ducru-Beaucaillou. It consists of 66% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Petit Verdot. The grapes were picked from September 7 to October 4. The wet winter of this vintage ensured that the soil was nourished again. In April, more rain fell than expected, which ensured that the absorption of the nutrients was optimal. The temperatures in May were above average, which gave an early and rapid flowering and grape growth. The wine was allowed to mature for 12 months in French oak barrels. A compact nose followed by cherries, blueberries, cloves and vanilla. In the mouth it opens slowly with fine tannins and ripe rich fruit. Yet nice and fresh with some herbs and a long aftertaste. More accessible in the young years than the Grand Vin but also available for aging.
FACT: Under the tab: Attachment you will find the official factsheet and we will send it to you digitally when you order this wine. Also worth mentioning that we buy the (Bordeaux) wines directly and never through intermediaries because then we do not know which journeys the wine has made and how it has been treated. The wines come from the cellars of the Chateau directly to our conditioned Warehouse in Dordrecht where all our wines are stored .
Specifications
| Type of Wine | Red |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Appellation | Saint-Julien |
| Winery | Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou |
| Grape | Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot |
| Biological certified | No |
| Natural wine | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Drinking as of | 2026 |
| Drinking till | 2058 |
| Alcohol % | 14 |
| Alcohol free/low | No |
| Content | 0.75 ltr |
| Oak aging | Yes |
| Sparkling | No |
| Dessert wine | No |
| Closure | Cork |
| Parker rating | 92 |
| James Suckling rating | 95 |
| Vinous rating | 95 |
| Tasting Profiles | Complex, Dark fruit, Dry, Aged on wood, Powerful, Mineral, Tannines |
| Drink moments | Indruk maken, Lekker luxe, Open haard |
Wijnhuis
The Borie family has now owned this stately château for three generations, overlooking the Gironde. Since he took over the château in 2003, Bruno Borie has had only one goal: to make Ducru-Beaucaillou one of the best wines in the Médoc. The vineyards are planted with cabernet sauvignon (70%) and merlot (30%). As the name of the château implies, Château Ducru-Beaucaillou is blessed with a grand pebble-rich terroir that produces perfect cabernet sauvignon. Château Ducru-Beaucaillou takes its name from its "beautiful pebbles" ("beaux Cailloux", in French) which geologists less romantically refer to as Gunzian gravel. These quartz pebbles were deposited by the ancient Garonne at the beginning of the early Quaternary, some two million years ago. It is enough to take a walk through the vineyards to find rich lithological finds. Lydian jasper from the Pyrenees, flint, quartz, agatoids ... This Gunzian gravel creates soils poor in plant nutrients. But it is precisely their agricultural scarcity that guarantees the qualitative excellence of the wines. A choice from nature.
At Ducru-Beaucaillou, excellence is formed inch by inch thanks to an understanding of what the vines have to offer. Experience, intuition, asking questions, for a symbiosis with Mother Earth; people only pass through these noble terroirs. Since nature is a "subject of law", every procedure in the vineyard respects the entire ecosystem: herbicides have been abandoned in favor of mechanical weeds and judicious turf; replacing chemical fertilizers with manure and quality compost; insecticides with pheromones to control vine moths or kaolin clay to lure the green locust. Measures to facilitate aeration and sun exposure of the bunches, to avoid Botrytis and, if applicable, bacilli. Constant monitoring of available nitrogen before harvest. Reasonable viticulture, which earned the property ISO 14001 certification in 2016, supplemented with HVE3 certification (high environmental value level 3) since 2017.
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