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Château Ducru-Beaucaillou--Vintage 1924
9 bottles per lot
CHATEAU DUCRU-BEAUCAILLOU In the seventeenth century this great property was actually a portion of the great Beychevelle estate which extended over the whole of southern St-Julien and the neighboring communes. Upon it's dismembering at the end of that century a number of well known names in St-Julien, that of Branaire, Saint-Pierre and Beaucaillou, began a separate existence. Château Beaucaillou is usually addressed as Ducru-Beaucaillou from the name of its one-time owner, Mr. Bertrand Ducru. The vineyard, well named "beaux cailloux" (the beautiful pebbles), lies on 124 acres of well situated gravelly crests that run parallel to the Gironde. The varietals planted are 65 Cabernet Sauvignon, 25 Merlot, 5 Cabernet Franc and 5 Petit Verdot although the latter two varietals do not necessarily end up in the final blend. The resultant wine is famed for a little more subtlety and femininity than the wine of its more northerly neighbor Leoville Las Cases. Bottles from 20 to 30 year old vintages age gracefully and preserve their freshness and vitality, a touch more corpulence than other Saint Julien wines. Nothing is neglected to achieve the very highest quality so much so that many Bordeaux specialists consider this estate to be the quintessential Médoc wine. THE 1924 VINTAGE IN BORDEAUX "An abundant crop of attractive wines despite the poor spring and wet summer. Saved (as in 1978) by a flawless September. 'Divinely decadent; advancing age but opulent charms' to quote me, not Parker. I have an astonishing number of notes, just short of one hundred, many dating from the 1970s, partly due to the number coming on to the market. I see from a Christie's catalogue of 1973 that we listed a range of 21 '24s from one French cellar, including all of the first growths. ***" MB, Vintage Wine Château Ducru-Beaucaillou--Vintage 1924 Saint-Julien, 2me cru classé. Château-bottled Levels: six upper shoulder, three mid shoulder; short château embossed lead capsules, one capsule torn at top, heavily bin soiled labels, lightly torn labels, one wrinkled label 9 bottles per lot