2006 Ducru-Beaucaillou
France
Saint Julien
Bordeaux
Red
75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot
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2025 - 2048
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"The biggest challenge in 2007 was the wide range of ripeness," said Bruno Borie, explaining that the flowering was dragged out for a month, whereas it's usually finished in 11 to 15 days. "It was necessary to do a big green harvest in August. We hired 75 people and had them go from plot to plot, cutting off all the pink berries and clusters-about 20% to 25% of the fruit. Then in mid-August we pulled off all the leaves in front of the clusters, keeping only the leaves at the top, because we had such a deficit of heat and light. Normally this step would give tough, unstable tannins, like we had in 2003; so we were lucky not to get burned grapes in 2007. In the end the grapes were perfectly ripe. You know, we are lucky to be in a position where we can afford to do things like this in our vines."
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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%.
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