Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien, France 1999 1.5L Paso Robles and pasta with soft sauces

and pasta with soft sauces

The generous sweetness of fruit and its more noble

medium-length finish with shades of crushed pineapple

“The feeling of flying”

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

Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou, Saint-Julien, France 1999 1.5L Paso Robles and pasta with soft saucesMedium 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