Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé)

Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot

Tracked vintages: 85
Community notes: 5,518
Merchant offers: 742

What we know about this wine

Critics: 97/ 1002025 vintage
Real drinkers: 92/ 1005,518 notes, every vintage
Market price: £92per 75 cl2025 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
Drinking window: 2029–2055hold2024 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.

Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet. Style: Saint-Julien red.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5: DrySweet

Earth · graphite, pencil lead
Oak · cedar, cigar box
Black fruit · blackcurrant, cassis

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.

Realised in-bond trades£80–£415GBP per 75 cl · 42 priced vintages

1966One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2025

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Holdits window has not opened
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2016; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2016; drinking, window 2020–2076
Lowest price: 1994; £80 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé) monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 19 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé) monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2025	£92	97.4	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2024	£89	94.6	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2023	£122	96.6	No	per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, August 2024
2022	£188	97.3	—	per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, June 2023
2021	£99	95.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2020	£125	97.3	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2019	£118	97.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2018	£124	98.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2017	£121	96.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2016	£171	98.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2015	£148	96.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2014	£109	96.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2013	£85	91	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, September 2019
2012	£103	93.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2019
2011	£110	93.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
2010	£156	96.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2009	£227	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2008	£114	93.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2005	£174	94.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2004	£126	91.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
2003	£143	93.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018
2000	£189	94.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2024
1999	£84	89.8	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016
1998	£144	90.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
1996	£178	93	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
1995	£151	94.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
1994	£80	90	No	per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2017
1992	£141	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023
1990	£151	89	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
1989	£107	87.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
1988	£186	89.3	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
1986	£158	94.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
1985	£170	90.5	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
1983	£112	86	No	per 75cl, from a 9-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023
1982	£415	94.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
1981	£116	88.5	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
1979	£160	84	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020
1978	£137	90	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
1976	£126	87	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2019
1972	£101	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
1970	£227	92	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
1966	£216	89.5	No	per 75cl, from a 10-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025

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