Ducru-Beaucaillou - 1986 (750ml) 1987 Here the new French oak

Here the new French oak gives necessary shape to this almost exotically sweet wine

vegetable-like flavors than are found in a riper year

is one of the region's great wines

distinct hints of surmaturite Then big

Ducru-Beaucaillou - 1986 (750ml) 1987 Here the new French oakAt 16 years of age, this wine continues to taste more like a 5 to7 year old Bordeaux. The color is a handsome dark ruby with just a bit of pink at the edge. The wine exhibits sweet red and black currant fruit intermixed with wet stones, spice, and flowers. Medium bodied and still moderately tannic, but very concentrated, this firmly structured, slightly austere wine has tremendous upside to it. By the way, this was the first vintage where I began to