Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2025 is a standout Saint-Julien Grand Cru Classé that reflects the estate’s signature precision, intensity, and elegance. Crafted predominantly from Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot, this vintage reveals vivid aromas of blackcurrant, raspberry, graphite, bramble fruits, violets, and subtle notes of dark chocolate, liquorice, and spice. Powerful yet refined, the wine is structured with finely grained tannins, vibrant acidity, and a cool, mineral-driven freshness. Layered, energetic, and deeply expressive, Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 2025 combines concentration with purity, finishing long, lifted, and impeccably balanced. A serious and age-worthy Bordeaux, built for long-term cellaring with exceptional depth and personality.

Decanter | D 98
Published: Apr 1, 2026
Drink: 2034-2050

Such a vivid and vibrant colour in the glass with a bright pink rim. Ripe almost heady aromatics – perfumed bramble fruits with a dried floral aspect and dark chocolate. Ripe and massy in the mouth, not as sexy and smooth as Ducru can be, this is more grainy and a little grippy with the tannins and structure clearly on show and dark fruit in the background. Serious, sultry even, with oak on show – liquorice and clove spice. The aromatic display is quite incredible, certainly full of intensity but this hasn't settled yet. Mouthwatering acidity, great tannin structure, there’s a lot going on with this wine. Ends cool and fresh and lifted. I love the intensity, quite unlike many other wines this vintage – this is built like a racehorse, muscular and filling but chewy and soft too. I love the personality and think this wine has a long life ahead. There’s purity, clarity and gloss. 3.74pH. A yield of 22hl/ha. Harvest 2–23 September.
Closure: Natural Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Medium
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 79% Cabernet Sauvignon 21% Merlot

James Suckling | JS 96-97
Published: Apr 28, 2026

The intensity is very impressive on the nose, with black currants, raspberries and graphite. Medium- to full-bodied with a powerful structure of steely tannins that are polished and long. Turns fluid, fine and chewy at the end. Wait and see. A blend of 79% cabernet sauvignon and 21% merlot.

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For 300 years, six families have nurtured an indelible bond with Château Ducru-Beaucaillou. They are forever captives of this prestigious estate, be they named Desjean, Bergeron, Ducru, Johnston, Desbarat, or Borie. Its families were never short of praise for it. Over the decades, this devotion has managed to overcome all that is accidental or fleeting, as if passion perfected Nature's opus. 

Château Ducru-Beaucaillou owes its name to its "beautiful pebbles" ("beaux Cailloux", in French) that geologists refer to less romantically as Gunzian gravel. These quartz pebbles were deposited by the ancient Garonne at the beginning of the early Quaternary period, some two million years ago. It suffices to take a walk through the vineyards to make rich lithological finds. Lydian jasper from the Pyrenees, flint, quartz, agatoids... These Gunzian gravels make for soils that are poor in plant nutrients. But it is their very agrological paucity that guarantees the qualitative excellence of the wines. A choice of nature. 

The result is in the glass. The allure is immediate. A soft, fruity attack on the palate, a voluptuousness underscored by perfectly integrated, silky tannins that culminate in an exceptionally lengthy finish. The aromas dance, flatter the nose, seduce the soul and penetrate the memory. A muse that arrives on tiptoe and leave a lasting, infinite souvenir.