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2014 Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot (95%),Cabernet Franc (5%)
Ready - mature
Neal Martin MW
91/100
Product: 20148012270
2014 Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2014
Maturity Ready - mature
Grape List Merlot (95%),Cabernet Franc (5%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Beauséjour

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 91/100
The 2014 Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse) was an intriguing and quite mercurial Saint Emilion when I tasted it from barrel. Now in bottle, it has developed a quite compelling bouquet, very pure with black cherries, iodine, potpourri and crushed violets. The intensity is very impressive. The palate is medium-bodied with almost rigid tannin. This is a masculine wine, perhaps one that has closed down after bottle since it was so expressive from barrel. It is much more linear than I was expecting, even with a touch of hardness on the finish. It is a rather enigmatic Saint Emilion, one tricky to pin down at the moment. Hopefully more flesh will surface with bottle age and just balance out that strict finish. Let's see where this will go. Certainly I would not broach this for a few years.Neil Martin - 31/03/2017
Neal Martin MW, (Mar 2017)

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Château Beauséjour

Château Beauséjour is a 6.8-hectare jewel long recognised for the quality of its terroir; it has been a Premier Grand Cru Classé B since the first St Émilion classification. Almost half the vineyard sits atop the appellation’s limestone plateau, another half extends down onto the côtes. This was once part of a larger estate along with what is now Château Beau-Séjour Bécot.
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