Red · Saint-Julien · France
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 7,084 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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Tasting profile
A robust, full-bodied Saint-Julien with marked tannins, a long finish, and a silky, elegant texture. Reviewers describe dark fruit like blackcurrant and raspberry alongside tobacco and leather notes, with a fantastic aroma and ruby color that pairs well with rich dishes like magret.
Synthesized from 7,084Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Silky, balanced, middle of the road St Julien. Mix of tobacco and leather in nose (confuse with LB) but more dark fruit, blackcurrent and raspberry. Tannic and has a long finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé) is a red from Saint-Julien, France, blended from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. At $199 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
The calibrated figure is built from 7,084 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 7,290 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,133 other reds from France form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Saint-Julien (Grand Cru Classé) lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · France (1,134 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 7,084.
