Château Ducru-Beaucaillou La Croix Ducru-Beaucaillou
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Petit Verdot
- Tracked vintages
- 25
- Community notes
- 21
- Merchant offers
- 220
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002025 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 89/ 10021 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £23per 75 cl2022 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
- Drinking window
- 2026–2049drinking2024 · 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 · pencil lead
- Oak · cedar, dark chocolate, tobacco
- Black fruit · black cherry, blackcurrant
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot. 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.
1995One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022
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.
- 202593critic
- 202492critic
- 202393critic
- 202294critic£23 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
- 202192critic
- 202093criticunit not stated
- 201994critic
- 201892critic
- 201791critic£33 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2024
- 201693critic£37 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
- 201592critic£43 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2019
- 201493critic£32 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
- 201391critic
- 201291critic£47 / 75cl6-1500 ml in-bond trade, April 2025
- 201189critic£24 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- 201091critic£53 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
- 200991critic£34 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
- 200890critic£35 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
- 2007£30 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
- 200688critic
- 200591critic£38 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2023
- 200088critic
- 1996£42 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018
- 199589drinkers£22 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017
- 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
- 2022
- 94 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2022
- drinking, window 2025–2058
- Lowest price
- 1995
- £22 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
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | £23 | 93.9 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024 |
| 2017 | £33 | 91.4 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2024 |
| 2016 | £37 | 93.4 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024 |
| 2015 | £43 | 92 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2019 |
| 2014 | £32 | 93.1 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020 |
| 2012 | £47 | 90.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, April 2025 |
| 2011 | £24 | 89.3 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025 |
| 2010 | £53 | 90.6 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022 |
| 2009 | £34 | 91.2 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025 |
| 2008 | £35 | 90.4 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024 |
| 2007 | £30 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025 |
| 2005 | £38 | 91 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2023 |
| 1996 | £42 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018 |
| 1995 | £22 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017 |
Where to go next
LWIN 1008951