2016 Grand Puy Ducasse
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Tasting Notes
The 2016 Grand Puy Ducasse has a clean, fresh blackberry- and iodine-scented bouquet that displays fine vigor and definition. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy black fruit and plenty of cedar, although it cuts away swiftly toward the tobacco-tinged finish. A decent if slightly closed Pauillac that just needs more bottle age in order to find its groove. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting.
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Wine Spectator
Jancis Robinson MW
More reviews and scores
The warm plum, blackberry and black currant preserve flavors have solid depth, picking up dark earth and warm tobacco notes along the way. Offers a broad, fleshy finish. Apr 2017, James Molesworth, www.winespectator.com
Sappy, lively nose. Straightforward Pauillac character. No transports of delight but a very solid performance. Strongly Cabernet. Apr 2017, www.jancisrobinson.com, Drink: 2026-2040
The 2016 Grand Puy Ducasse is bold, racy and juicy. Super-ripe dark cherry, plum, espresso, licorice and sweet oak give the wine its unctuous, flamboyant personality. Forward and exotic as it is, the Grand Puy Ducasse is nevertheless very nicely done. Readers should expect an opulent Pauillac, the wine's midweight structure notwithstanding. Tasted two times. Apr 2017, www.vinous.com
About the producer
The 40 hectares of this Pauillac Fifth Growth are spread across three sites, pieced together in the 18th century by Pierre Ducasse. Today owned by France’s Crédit Agricole bank, they have some very fine vineyard land, with their northernmost plot neighbouring Mouton and Lafite.