2024 Beausejour Saint Emilion Grand Cru

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

Concentrated ruby, purity of fruit expression, chalky tannins with redcurrant and raspberry, lift and juice, white pepper spice, the team here manages to capture the best of the vintage and this is a wine with ageing ability and a quiet sense of joy. 3.36ph, 7% press wine in here, more than usual, using 114h half barrels for the press wine, long slow harvest. Josèphine Duffau Lagarosse co-owner and winemaker. 40% new oak (compared to 70% in 2022, for example), Axel Marchal and Julien Viaud consultants.
95/100 Jane Anson

(Saint-Émilion; 72% Merlot; 28% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 28 hl/ha after selecting just ‘the caviar’ from the bunches; 13% alcohol; tasted at the property with Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse; a little bit of vin de presse, but only around 7%; Axel Marchal & Julien Viaud are the consultants here). This is shy and a little closed at first. Walnut and walnut oil; black cherry; brambles; blueberries; peony; wisteria; violet; blood orange. So gorgeously beguiling on the palate. Not a massively ample frame, lozenge-shaped in the mouth with crumbly chalky tannins at the edges breaking into the core and releasing little plumes of freshness that seem to radiate out from the centre. A pleasing viscosity. This is a superb wine that really respects the vintage fantastically well. It’s brilliantly lifted, with aeration in the mouth seemingly releasing an upwardly pointed firehose of fresh sapid, juicy fruits. There’s a lovely nuttiness on the finish and, eventually, the cedar that is always just on the verge of breaking through and that wraps itself around and enrobes the fresh blueberries and black cherries like a dear friend. This will age gracefully and it might shut down a little before it really expresses itself. But it’s going to be fabulous!
95-97/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business