2018 Le Petit Ducru de Ducru-Beaucaillou

France / Bordeaux / Medoc / Haut-Medoc / Saint-Julien 2. Cru Rouge

Le Petit Ducru de Ducru-Beaucaillou is the third wine of Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2nd Grand Cru Classé – a wine of balance and harmony. An elixir of youth. It is there, alive and well, a rendezvous with pleasure. Accessible from its earliest youth, uninhibited in its Chaplinesque antics. It will make for a happy dining companion in restaurants. It will make for a perfect marriage with poultry where it will bow down before its crispy, brown skin and envelop the steaming flesh with its tannins. Le Petit Ducru tastes of Sundays. Above all, it tastes of friendship.
 
Blend:
60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon.
 
A nod also to the history of the estate, specifically to one of the former owners, Bertrand Ducru (1770-1829), a brilliant and worldly merchant from the Bearn region of France, situated along the flanks of the western Pyrenees mountains. Powerful and well established, he bought the property in 1797 (16 Vendémiaire, year 6) and added his surname to that of the site, which then became Ducru-Beaucaillou. He hired the architect, Paul Abadie, graduate of the acclaimed Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, to enhance the elegant Directory period chartreuse. But above all, he invested heavily in the vineyards and the cellar. The wines quickly rose to the summit of the appellation and Ducru- Beaucaillou obtained unanimous recognition from the Place de Bordeaux, which later consecrated it with a place in the 1855 classification.