1985 Ducru Beaucaillou Saint Julien

1985 Ducru Beaucaillou Saint Julien

BORDEAUX 85 TASTING 3
We held a tasting of Bordeaux 85 today with a blend of left and right bank: Mouton Rothschild, Leoville Las Cases, Gruaud Larose, Ducru Beaucaillou, La Lagune, Canon La Gaffeliere, Figeac and Certan de May.
I warned everyone in the tasting to pay attention to this bottle as I find that it was shut and in superb condition. Great floral nose that opened up very slowly. Extremely tight on the palate with generous elegance and moderate sweetness. I learned the bottle was ex chateau.

10 Mar 2015
INT'L VIVINO CHAPTER DAY 1
EX CHATEAU PROVENANCE ROCKS
As usual, it was served double blind. As like all other Saint Juliens, this one also had a lot of intense coffee on the nose, plus slight earthiness. The palette is extremely fresh (like the label), very rich, coupled with leathery character, very clean. I knew it was Saint Julien wine but could not guess it was the bottle I brought. Anyway, it was an unbiased judgment from me as it was served double blind.