2010 Grand Puy Ducasse
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Tasting Notes
A rather odd nose yet with some pretty, floral red fruit. A bit of a weird, confected fruit cocktail, with rather severe tannin.
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
FINE+RARE
More reviews and scores
The deep purple 2010 Grand-Puy-Ducasse offers up aromas of plums, blackberries, cedar and cassis, and has wonderful depth and layers of flavour on the palate. A big, dense and full-bodied style, this is a wine with generous fruit and a fairly long finish. asianpalate.com
Lots of lush, succulent cassis fruit, good meaty depth, fully flavoured, perhaps not the most complex. Drink 2017-27. Steven Spurrier, decanter.com
Mouthfilling, with lots of fleshy crushed plum, blackberry and currant fruit pushed by dark tobacco and roasted vanilla notes. Muscular, but rounded and showing good integration already. James Molesworth, winespectator.com
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.