Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 2005

Shay A

Last week was a combo of 4th Friday and Open That Bottle Night on back to back nights. Needless to say, the lineup between both days was full of heavy hitters, so I’m only posting standout bottles. This was slow oxed for a few hours before the event. I was fortunate to try this a couple times throughout the evening. Monster stuff that is only getting better. Aromatics of dark cocoa, mocha, bayleaf, cedar, currant, underripe blackberries and raspberries. Built like a tank on the palate...big structure sporting notes of leather, herbs de Provence, grilled black cherries, plum, mulberries, graphite, and a tannic finish. If you can decant for half a day, go for it. Otherwise, hold on and enjoy the fireworks in 5-7yrs. Thanks for bringing @Jid R .

David L

Hold. This will be wroth waiting for.

Andrew S

Relatively plush, nice fruits, cedar, hints of blossoms. Good amount of fruits and fine tannins. My sense is more complexity is still to come but drinking nicely.

Ben Spicer

It’s damn good!

Tom Kobylarz

Surprisingly elegant for the amount of fruit and density in the nose and the palate. Medium/medium+ body...tannin are fine and seem fairly resolved where that might smooth over the edges of firmer tannin.

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

Rich and smooth. Beautiful mid and dark fruits.

John Sweeney

Amazing! In a great place, so much intensity, layered and structure. Thanks Bruno! #bordeaux #stjulien

Craig Haserot

Founder and Proprietor Sojourn Cellars

Open ready to go and in a nice spot.

Tracy Hall

Wow. Loved this!

Andrew S

Blackberry, stewed cherry, cassis, cocoa, spice, cedar and light graphite. Great depth of fruit. Really nice.