Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien, France 1999 1.5L Paso Robles the wine maintains its delicacy

the wine maintains its delicacy and elegance with a beautiful straw-yellow color

medium-length finish with shades of crushed pineapple

The generous sweetness of fruit and its more noble

It will be lovely to see how this evolves over the next decade or longer

savory and with the unmistakable hint of hydrocarbons

Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien, France 1999 1.5L Paso Robles the wine maintains its delicacyMedium brick colored, the 1999 Ducru Beaucaillou needs a little swirling to release the tightly coiled notions of dried cherries, fruitcake and red currant jelly with emerging hints of balsamic, mincemeat pie, menthol, powdered chocolate and star anise. The medium to full bodied palate is wonderfully expressive with seamless freshness lightly lifting a great core of youthful red and black fruits plus fine grained tannins to support, finishing with