Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2006! One of the most compelling Ducru Beaucaillou's made in the last quarter century is the 2003 (which is also the first vintage to be packaged in an impressive heavy glass bottle with a special long cork). A blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Merlot, it is a powerful, tannic, blockbuster effort revealing a liqueur of mineral-like component intermixed with creme de cassis, raspberry, and flower characteristics, and an atypically high 13.5% alcohol. Having firmed u...

Rating: 92/100 - As reviewed by Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar on May-06

Rating: 97/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator on 03/31/06

Rating: 96/100 - As reviewed by The Wine Advocate

Rating for France-Bordeaux-Saint-Julien: 95 (good year)<br/><br/>Drinkability: too young, let it sit<br/>

? -2023 , 95 chez Parker!!!

WS 97