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Grand Puy Ducasse 2010

RegionBordeaux
Subregion France > Bordeaux > Left Bank > Pauillac
ColourRed
TypeStill
Grape VarietyCabernet Sauvignon

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Tasting Notes

Deep garnet colored, the 2010 Grand-Puy-Ducasse gives up notes of blackcurrant pastilles, prunes and fruitcake with wafts of espresso and oolong tea. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has very good fruit concentration, with a firm, grainy texture and seamless freshness, finishing long and earthy. Drink 2020-2039.

92
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (March 2020), March 2020

This blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot is an up-front, seductively styled Pauillac (one of the more forward and evolved wines from this appellation in 2010). Deep purple, with exceptionally subtle texture and oodles of cassis fruit as well as hints of mocha and white chocolate, it is an elegant wine, but the overall impression is one of considerable flesh, fat and succulence. It will be hard to resist now, but can be cellared for another 15+ years.

92
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (205), March 2013

A blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot, the Grand Puy Ducasse has a ripe, raspberry, redcurrant and wild strawberry bouquet, quite showy for a Pauillac but not close to the delineation of Grand Puy Lacoste (for example.) The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins, nicely balanced, not complex but a lot of fruité towards the supple finish. This is a very fine Grand Puy Ducasse for medium rather than long-term drinking. Tasted April 2011.

90/92
Neal Martin, RobertParker.com, April 2011

Blueberry, currants and blackberries on the nose and palate. Full body, with velvety tannins and a long finish. Very well done here.

92/93
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, March 2011

16.5 Drink 2016-2025
Mid crimson. Some sweetness and purple fruits. Trying perhaps just a teensy bit too hard but this should certainly give pleasure. Just a little short after the sweet start.

16+
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, April 2011

60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot. This Pauillac is often over-looked and usually offers good value for money. An opaque, black colour. Quite closed on the nose. Black cherry notes with a hint of licorise and an overlay of sweet vanilla oak. Impressively concerntrated with a core of sweet, ripe cassis fruit and supple tannings. A very good effort for this chateau.

91+
Farr Vintners, April 2011

There is a lot of concentrated fruit serious and brooding rich blackcurrant backed by black cherry and slightly firmer sloe. Although the tannins are firm the richness, power, sweetness of the fruit is not over dominated. There is a fleshy power to the finish.

93/96
Derek Smedley MW, April 2011
94
Tim Atkin MW, timatkin.com, April 2011

Lots of lush, succulent cassis fruit, good meaty depth, fully flavoured, perhaps not the most complex. Drink 2017-27.

16.5
Steven Spurrier, Decanter.com, April 2011
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The recent resurrection and impressive quality emerging from Grand-Puy-Ducasse is obvious in their prodigious 2010. An inky/blue/purple color is followed by abundant notes of graphite, cassis and blueberry liqueur offered in an opaque, full-bodied, layered, structured wine. This prodigious Pauillac may be the finest wine ever produced at this estate, and is undeniably a sleeper of the vintage as it remains one of the finest values for a classified growth Pauillac. Give it 5-7 years of cellaring and drink it over the following 25+ years. Bravo!

92/94
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (194), May 2011
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