2025 Beausejour Saint Emilion Grand Cru

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

Smoky depths, crushed rocks, wet stones, pumice, just delicious and gets better and better the longer it spends in the glass. This is a limestone masterclass, so precise, so tense in a carved and momentum-filled way. Saffron, blueberry, crushed raspberry, wet stones, rose petals, chalk. Feel really energised from tasting it, totally harnessing the power of the year without being overtaken by it. Harvest September 8 to 19. 55% new oak for ageing.
98-100/100 Jane Anson

(Saint-Émilion; 69% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 39 hl/ha; pH 3.39; 13.5% ABV; tasted with Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse and Tokaji, of course, at Beauséjour). We've left the best until last. To my, of course, highly subjective taste, this is all and more than I could ever wish for from a St Emilion on limestone in any vintage. It's brilliant. It's floral, first and foremost, with peony, rose petal, violet and a little haunting iris note that builds in the glass. We find loganberry, blueberry and black berry, a little thyme, maybe just the very slightest hint of rosemary. Graphite, not cedar. Once again this is such an eloquent and articulate expression of its terroir, structured and chiselled – almost carved out of the rock – by its limestone-chalky, powdery tannins. That renders it perhaps the purest wine of the appellation in this vintage. Oyster shell notes seem to be released by the touch of the tannins. Sumptuous and so delicate on the attack. We taste this next to the new winemaking facility and I am struck by the thought that this could only have been made here, such is its precision. Shimmering, radiant and exuberant. A magical wine and the best way to end our primeur journey. A technical note: one of the things that is so crucial to the quality of this wine is the incredibly precise work between Axel Marchal and Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse in the matching of the separately vinified parcels to the wood.
98-100/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse needs a little swirling to coax out an enticing perfume of peonies, orange blossoms, juicy red cherries, and anise, leading to a core of ripe blackberries and black cherries, plus wafts of menthol and lavender. The medium-bodied palate is very tightly wound with wonderfully pure black and red fruit layers, framed by firm, fine-grained tannins and a crisp line, finishing very long and chalky. Sensationally seductive! The blend is 69% Merlot and 31% Cabernet Franc. The alcohol is 13.5% and the pH is 3.39.
97-99/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown