2016 Prelude a Grand-Puy-Ducasse
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Full bottle 1,312 g. Second wine created as long ago as 1955. 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot grown on gravel. Aged for 18 to 24 months in French oak barrels (30–40% new). Quite a pleasure to get one's hands on a wine designed to mature relatively fast from this excellent vintage. Mid depth of crimson with still quite a bit of purple in it. Definitely stony Pauillac with a dry finish. Do not attempt to drink this without food! But it should certainly please lovers of traditional claret. It's not opulent and there's still a trace of tannin but it's well balanced and well behaved. (JR)
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Jancis Robinson MW
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.