Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1981 (375ml)

Rafael Landestoy

Even though it wasn't a good vintage it was nice. Could taste the age but was still nice.

DLynn Proctor

Penfolds Ambassador

Havent smelled a Bordeaux this incredible in a long while. Holy sweaty socks

Tom Kobylarz

The oldest wine was the most controversial, the 1981 Ducru-Beaucaillou see-sawed all night as either corked or not corked. My opinion was that it was only slightly corked, or had bad storage issues before I acquired it. The nose had more of an issue than the palate, having a consistent funk that would fluctuate in strength. Intertwined with the funk were some dried red fruits, fall leaves & baking spices. The palate for sure was better than the nose, having very good density - a very solid mid-palate, but it too changed through the night back and forth between a little funky to pretty good. Texturally the tannin was fully resolved into the wine showing an elegant and silky structure reminiscent of Burgundy.

Tom Goldstone

Out of Imperial

Ara Aslanian

This bottle is amazing, still going, raspberry and tobacco

Jen

Marvelous

Jen

Another good old Bordeaux from HDH

Flavio Menezes

Going downhill fast, perhaps a bad bottle. Vintage is 1981

Rgayton@lakesidevfo.com

One of my go to high end wines. Regardless of the vintage the wine seems to press on through. This particular vintage was a cut above.

Matthew Beckman

The 81 Ducru was WOTN in the NYE Birth Year challenge. Wonderful mature BDX aromas.