Ducru-Beaucaillou - 1986 (750ml) Size:750ml and black currants

and black currants

Wine Advocate - 91 points

it has closed down

from the Chetillons vineyard in Mesnil

are totally groundless

Ducru-Beaucaillou - 1986 (750ml) Size:750ml and black currantsAt 16 years of age, this wine continues to taste more like a 5 to7 year old Bordeaux. The color is a handsome dark ruby with just a bit of pink at the edge. The wine exhibits sweet red and black currant fruit intermixed with wet stones, spice, and flowers. Medium bodied and still moderately tannic, but very concentrated, this firmly structured, slightly austere wine has tremendous upside to it. By the way, this was the first vintage where I began to