Ducru-Beaucaillou
Bruno Borie emphasized that La Croix de Beaucaillou is Ducru's second wine and that Lalande-Borie is from another property entirely: 25 hectares of vines to the west of Ducru, near Talbot and Lagrange. Ducru comes mostly from gravelly soil around the chateau, "an estuary microclimate," while La Croix de Beaucaillou, which normally includes a higher percentage of merlot than Ducru, comes from another 35 hectares of vines across the road toward Langoa- and Leoville-Barton, where the soil is similar but the climate different. Since taking over here in 2003, Borie has updated and modernized this wine through a host of small improvements in the vines and in the winery, perhaps the most important of which has been more precise harvesting and stricter selection. The work in the vineyard was especially critical in 2006, with all possible steps taken to ensure ripe, clean grapes at the time of harvest. As Borie put it, "the sorting table is the last step before you hang yourself." The aristocratic 2006 has an IPT of 80 and alcohol of 13.2%.
From 2006, 2005 and 2004 Bordeaux (May 2007) by Stephen Tanzer
2005 Saint-Julien
Color: Red
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