Red Wine20114.0🇫🇷 Bordeaux • Red
Château Grand-Puy Ducasse, Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé)
Bordeaux, France · Château Grand-Puy Ducasse · Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Blackcurrant (Cassis)CedarLeather
A classed-growth Pauillac with a decade of cellar behind it: cassis mellowed into tobacco and leather.
74.00 €/ 0.75 L
Delivered in ~30 minutes, anywhere in Monaco
Delivered in ~30 minutes, anywhere in Monaco
A cellar curated by our sommelier
Wine + dishes from Monaco’s best restaurants, one delivery
What you will taste
Grand-Puy Ducasse ages its wine in cellars right on the Pauillac quayside, and this 2011 has done its sleeping: the young cassis has softened into tobacco, cedar and leather, the tannins are round and calm. Drinking a classed growth at this age is a different pleasure from drinking one young; smoother, wiser, ready without any waiting.
The sommelier’s note
«Decant gently for the sediment, serve at 17 degrees, and drink within the evening: mature wine waits for no one.»
How this wine opens up
From the first pour to the last glass — follow it through the evening.
On arrival
Handle with respect
Stand it upright, decant slowly off the sediment, and let a decade of patience pour out.
15 min · First pour
Softened fruit
Cassis with rounded edges, tobacco already visible.
35 min · The opening
The tertiary hour
Leather, cedar and earth take the lead: this is what cellars are for.
