WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 847; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2010 which is 860. The average score for Château Ducru-Beaucaillou is 915, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Ducru-Beaucaillou they use words like Tannins, Black, Fruit, Full, Ruby, Sweet, Purple, Cassis, Acidity, Oak, Pure, Rich, Minerals, Ripe, Blackcurrant. The 2010 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2010 but no other wine from Château Ducru-Beaucaillou: Stoniness, Aftertaste, Persistency, Succulent, Aeration, Heather, Cerebral, Edge, Citric, Focused. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13% vs 12.25%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2010 (13% vs 13.47%). The wine will be ready to drink in 4 years (in 2020) and should be consumed within the next 19 years (by 2035). It normally takes wines from Château Ducru-Beaucaillou around 11 years to be ready to start drinking, and 16 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Latour 2009, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Haut-Brion 2010, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010, Château Haut-Brion 2008, Château Léoville-Poyferré 2010, Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers below average value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score, 70% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2010
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-24 |
gbp |
121 |