Ducru-Beaucaillou 'Le Petit Ducru' St. Julien 2019

This newcomer is a selection derived from Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou's St-Julien vineyards. Le Petit Ducru is a wine of balance and harmony, an elixir of youth. It is there, alive, and well, a rendezvous with pleasure. From its complexity to its structure, by way of its balance and its elegance. There is, of course, a family resemblance, a wonderful complicity between all of the estate wines at Ducru-Beaucaillou. A Cabernet-Merlot blend and depending on the vintage, sometimes with a hint of Petit Verdot, varietal that we know to be a skillful sculptor. Accessible from its earliest youth, it will make for a happy dining companion in restaurants. It will make for a perfect marriage with poultry where it will bow down before its crispy, brown skin and envelop the steaming flesh with its tannins.