A mini-vertical of Château Ducru-Beaucaillou and its neighbours, tasted in the Languedoc. See this guide to our bordeaux verticals.
It’s not every day I get to taste a 1966 bordeaux, and the vintages 1979 and 1980 seem, according to our database, to have largely passed me by. I was wine correspondent of the Sunday Times when they were released but at that stage, going to Bordeaux to taste en primeur was still a relatively rare activity. We were married in 1981 but even that year was a far from a stellar vintage with only Certan de May being heartily...