2025 Beau-Sejour-Becot

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Saint-Émilion; 80% Merlot; 20% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 32 hl/ha; pH 3.40; 13.5% alcohol; Thomas Duclos is the consultant here). Gorgeous. A little closed aromatically at first, rendering this intimate in personality. It draws you in, however, but you have to come to it. It really rewards that. Floral, with delicate lilac and peony blossoms that are easier to find by virtue of that initial slight closure. Cedar and black cherry, a little blueberry, with graphite flooding through with aeration. A touch of rose water too. Brilliantly fresh and a wine that really signals the absence of excessive stress on this wonderful limestone plateau terroir. Exuberant in the mouth, with a bright and crunchy fruit, refreshing and joyous. This is ample in frame and gently structured by the lovely powdery chalky tannins that are another signature of the terroir. Cool at the core with an almost mirror-pool clarity. Hyper-cystalline and luminous, but also vivid and vibrant, almost vibrating on the finish. The Merlot sets the frame for the Cabernet Franc to dance, to swirl bringing all its freshness. Accessible, yes, but with colossal aging potential.
96-98/100 Colin Hay

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot springs from the glass with vivacious notes of fresh blackberries, ripe black plums, and red currant preserves, giving way to nuances of rose bud tea, lavender, pencil lead, and iron ore, with a waft of mossy tree bark. The medium-bodied palate is wonderfully energetic with great tension from crisp acidity and tightly wound black and red berry layers, supported by very fine-grained tannins, finishing long and chalky. The blend is 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. The alcohol is 13.5% and the pH is 3.4.
96-98/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Clear depth, sinew and crunchy cranberry, blueberry and red cherry fruit, with tension, minerality, salinity, a ton of juice and mouthwatering freshness on the finish, sea spray, saffron and tobacco leaf, curls of woodsmoke and iris flowers as it opens. Great stuff, with precision and possibility, and the DNA of the location. 16ha in production out of 22ha potential, cold soak for 15C at 6 days, 32 hl/ha. 3.4 pH. 55% new oak. Harvest September 5 to 18. Thomas Duclos consultant.
95/100 Jane Anson