Drink Date: 2025 - 2042

powerful and chewy

and dark plums merge with cedar

complemented by a discreet mineral touch and classic notes of pencil lead and cedar wood

Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien, 1982, 75cl 100RP Drink Date: 2025 - 2042From my cellar, the 1982 Ducru Beaucaillou is one of the most youthful of the Mdoc crus classs today. Unwinding in the decanter and glass with a rich bouquet of blackcurrants, licorice, cigar wrapper and loamy soil, it's full bodied, fleshy and muscular, with a broad attack that segues into a deep core of fruit framed by ripe, powdery tannins and succulent acids. It's an unusually big boned rendition of this elegantly styled wine, but it's no less