Marc Melser

9.0

We had the 2014 Vintage on 2/27-28/26. Tastes of candied apple and bing cherry. A very good wine. The tastes now are different from when I had the same wine 6 years ago. Interesting. The remarkable comment is how this wine is sailing four years after the notes say it should be consumed — 2 months ago

Tania Vetluzhskikh

8.9

Tasted in 2020 — 6 years ago

Steve Kersting

9.5

I've really grown to love chianti lately and this is the best value I've found yet — 7 years ago

Matthew Davis

9.0

Very robust, really good leather and earthy, some dark dried fruit. So good. — 5 months ago

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Barry Grossman

9.1

Rich, smoky, meaty, but well balanced. — 5 years ago

Cameron Parry

9.0

Wood got in the way of the fruit... otherwise totally solid. — 6 years ago

Carl Tominberg

9.2

Dark ruby color. Bold and rich tasting. Found it to be excellent. Glad I bought 2. — 7 years ago

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9.3

The 1996 Ducru-Beaucaillou is a vintage that I have not tasted for a number of years. Matured in two-thirds new oak, it has an open and expressive bouquet, a mixture of red and black fruit, estuarine scents, touches of liquorice emerging with time. It is higher-toned than the 1995 with iodine evolving with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannins, fresh acidity, quite sweet in the mouth and maybe like the 1995, just missing that complexity and terroir expression that I think has defined recent vintages from this estate. Maybe it is slightly compromised by some Merlot (25%) that was picked a but later, but still, there is a lot of pleasure to be found in this 1996. Tasted at the Ducru Beaucaillou vertical at the château. (Neal Martin, Vinous, July 2022)
— 4 years ago

Sarah

9.2

Medium bodied, little dry, fruity. Would be good with steak. — 6 years ago

Joey Kee

9.2

Ha! The comments on this wine are amazingly varied. I found it very overt on a chocolate tip, and more robust on the fruit side than your usual PINOT...but I really enjoyed it, would buy again.... — 7 years ago