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2023 Château Beauséjour, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot (70%), Cabernet Franc (30%)
Not ready
Product: 20238012270
2023 Château Beauséjour, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Description

Blend: 70% Merlot; 30% Cabernet Franc.

This is a really elegant showing; Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse has gone from strength to strength in her three-year tenure. The nose is incredibly perfumed, brimming with crushed violets, sweet spices and fresh red and black fruit. The tannins are incredibly fine grained. The texture is particularly refined, showing the impeccable craftsmanship that has gone into this wine. There is a lot of balance here, with bright fruit peppered with flashes of aniseed, myrrh and vegetal spice, seamlessly woven together to make a really excellent wine.

Drink 2030 - 2047

Our score: 18.5/20

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2023
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Merlot (70%), Cabernet Franc (30%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Beauséjour

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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Saint-Emilion

Saint-Emilion

First officially classified in 1954, St-Émilion is one of Bordeaux's largest winemaking appellations, producing more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St Estèphe, Pauillac, St Julien and Margaux combined. Many of the region's finest vineyards can be found atop the steep limestone slopes of the village itself, although a fledgling band of garagiste producers are eschewing terroir to make small-batch, deeply-concentrated wines from their homes.
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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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