Château Ducru-Beaucaillou’s New Winery Has 80 Vats and QR Codes — But Still Racks by Candlelight

Bruno-Eugène Borie runs on two clocks, and neither of them is especially interested in his schedule. One reads tomorrow morning, when a grape tasted in the row might be perfect for picking; the other reads sometime around 2076, when the young vines on the slope below his château should still be in the ground. Those two clocks explain why Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, the Saint-Julien Second Growth whose story begins in 1720 and whose bottles have worn that famous gold-edged yellow label…

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