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2023 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot (77%), Cabernet Franc (21%), Cabernet Sauvignon (2%)
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Product: 20238109815
2023 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Description

Blend: 77% Merlot, 21% Cabernet Franc, 2% Cabernet Sauvignon.

The 2023 season was the second warmest at the property in 100 years. The blend has the highest percentage of Cabernet Franc, thanks to replanting efforts at the property. Julien alluded that 2023 was a heterogenous vintage, with each wine telling a slightly different story. However, the story at Beausejour Bécot was triumphant. The vibrant bouquet is expressive with sour cherry, crushed strawberry and rose petal notes. The limestone terroir is palpable on the palate with superb tension, well-defined fruit and fine, chalky tannins. Juliette and Julien Bécot have delivered another superb expression.

Drink 2028 - 2045

Our score: 17.5/20 

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2023
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Merlot (77%), Cabernet Franc (21%), Cabernet Sauvignon (2%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Beau-Séjour Bécot

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 Beau-Séjour Bécot

Château Beau-Séjour Bécot has experienced some dramatic ups and downs in recent decades: it was classified a Premier Grand Cru Classé B in 1955, demoted in 1986 and promoted once again, as a Premier Grand Cru Classé B, in 1996.
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