2001 Ducru-Beaucaillou
France
Saint Julien
Bordeaux
Red
68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc
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2021 - 2035
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The 2003 Ducru weighs in at 13.2% alcohol, the highest ever for this chateau, according to Bruno Borie, who took over direction of this estate in 2003. (Francis-Xavier Borie is now installed at Grand-Puy-Lacoste, and is also responsible for Haut Batailley.) The yield was just 34 hectoliters per hectare, with Ducru losing some fruit to a July 15 hailstorm. As at so many other Bordeaux chateaux, the 2003 got a cooler-than-normal fermentation. According to Borie, the cap was kept immersed and wet and the pumpovers were light. Borie considers the young 2003 more complex and classic than the 2000 Ducru, as the tannins in the new vintage, he says, were superior.
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Francois-Xavier Borie describes the 2001 vintage as "sympathique." The late harvest, and the significant variation of temperature between days and nights in September, yielded what Borie called "an original fruit expression." When I asked for elaboration, he replied: "It's a cool wine: classic, elegant and long, more intellectual in style, in contrast to a hot one, which would be more massive, exotic, exuberant." The grapes in 2001 were healthy, he added, and they had plenty of natural sugar. I was not able to retaste the 2000 Ducru or Grand Puy Lacoste, as the wines were being fined.
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