Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou - Reconditioned at Chateau 1985 (750ml)
Price: $322.00
| Producer | Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | St Julien |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 1985 |
| Size | 750ml |
Reconditioned at Chateau - More than Pristine
Community Tasting Notes from Cellar-Tracker
11/15/2024 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine:95 Points
Think this was also a recent library release purchased from the Chateau. CT reviews vary a lot on this. My hunch is that the bottles purchased from the Chateau are the high scoring ones.
Mushrooms, tobacco, leather, tomato leaf, graphite, green bell pepper, ripe black currants, and ripe black cherries on the nose. Tertiary in the best possible way, but feels like it was still pretty fruit backward in its youth. High intensity of aromas. Fruitier and less tertiary on the palate, which adds ripe blackberries and dried chili flakes. While both the nose and palate feel younger than 39, the palate feels especially so. Medium + intensity of flavors. The finish lingers for about 45 seconds.
Medium + body with medium - acid and medium tannins. At peak right now, and what a beautiful peak it is. Great pairing with beef short ribs.
2/10/2022 - CAILLES WROTE:95 Points
Six Vintages of Ducru Beaucaillou: 82/85/95/06/17/18. This mini vertical beautifully showcased that Ducru Beaucaillou is certainly one of the better left bank estates to cope with climate change: it still produces mineral/earth-driven, not too ripe wines with the signature St. Julien fresh blue fruit character. While there have been great wines before (the 1985 & 1982 were on fire and the best wines of the evening), the quality is steadily improving: even though I’m not the biggest fan of the 2017/2018 vintages in Bordeaux, these were some of the very best Bdxs from this vintage I’ve had to date. Ducru remains my favorite St. Julien estate thanks to more depth and more finesse than Leoville Barton (2nd), higher approachability and consistency than Las Cases (3rd) and less ripeness and more freshness than Poyferre (4th).
TN: Deep and dark nose with dark berries, quite strong minty notes and very beautiful mushroom and truffle notes, minerality. Some clove notes. Much more interesting, complex and precise than the 1995 in the next glass. On the palate this is amazing. The drinkabilty is so high, you could drink liters of it. Nice, highly elegant not too ripe dark berries, surrounded by a lot of tertiary aromas of tobacco, black truffles, mushrooms, wet forest floor, some spices and mint. High complexity and quite impressive precision. The tannins are molten but the wine still shows a lot of tension, the acidity is medium and perfectly integrated. The wine shows a wonderful creaminess and no excess of everything. The finish might be a touch short or at least not keeping up with the magnificant nose and palate experience. Overall great harmony and in a perfect drinking window today. Won‘t get any better. Yes, it has much less concentration than the 1982 but in exchange you get a perfectly mature, full teritary Bordeaux expression of the best kind. With time this loses a bit of its expression which shows that this is right on its peak today and won‘t get any better. 96 in the beginning, rather 94 towards the end.
Decanting: PnP from a 100ml glass/screwcap tube sealed with argon directly from the Chateau. As mentioned above, this lost a bit of steam towards the end. I would not decant this wine. PnP is the way to go.
9/3/2021 - SEAN TAY LIKES THIS WINE:96 Points
Medium+ nose with notes of mushroom, spices, toast, black fruits. Medium acidity and tannin. Tannin totally integrated. Smooth. Decanted 2 hours. Ex Chateau, bottle condition and provenance is excellent. Drank during Assemblage 2020 dinner. Personally feel that for vintage wines, the bottle condition is more important than the vintage rating.
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