1959 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 94.1 points

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  9/15/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points

  The nose pops with notes of dried flowers, tobacco leaf, and an array of sweet dark, and white cherries with a touch of spearmint on the back end. The palate is silky, vibrant, and right in the middle of firm, and flamboyant, with a boatload of sweet, cherries, currants, tobacco, and a dollop of citrus. The finish lingers with all that fruit, which is a good thing, as this is a wine you cannot get enough of. Drink from 2023-2039.

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  10/26/2020 - englishman's claret wrote: 92 Points

  Despite coming from a chateau-bottled magnum, this doesn't show quite as well as past 750s. The fundamental character of the wine is the same and there's no doubt that, particularly with air, a charming amalgam of mature claret flavors develops. Dark fruit, fresh loam, old cedar and leather with a slightly minty note - just not quite as vivid and detailed as prior examples. 92-93

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  7/5/2020 - tinybubbles wrote: 91 Points

  A somewhat underwhelming bottle. Already in decline, it did not offer any individually distinguishing elements.

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  7/15/2019 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points

  From a negociant bottling, this misses just a bit of the complexity and impact of a recent chateau-bottled example though it's not far off, either. Again with a tremendously muscular, dark fruit profile - blackcurrant, blackberry compote, woodsy ceps, loam, and oak. The 59 isn't bothered a bit by 3 hours in the decanter and finished just as strong as it started - if anything, it needed 20-30 minutes to sort itself out.

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  6/17/2019 - steinersing wrote: 96 Points

  Excellent - energetic, round balanced. A real treat.

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