2020 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 94.2 points

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  4/13/2024 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine:

  Second time with this and I'm still finding it a little compact and closed in on itself and harder to get a read on than usual. Structurally it has that clenched bite and piercing, snappy fruit in both red and black tones that make up the essential ingredients of what I love about the Becot style. There is some tight-grained cedar from the oak but the glossy fruit mostly smooths it over. Whatever else it's got is still packed into the core.

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  2/18/2024 - KAT9 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  The aroma is intense. Dark fruit, some kind of earthiness and smokiness layering. On the palate, acidity is super high, tannin is fine. I can feel the alcohol 14%, but it’s not intruding. I think this has a lot of potential but it’s not that fun to drink.

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  12/4/2023 - OldHick95 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Consumed over two nights. Composed and layered flavors of dark fruit, lifted by bright raspberry notes on the finish. Balancing the fruit was licorice and espresso notes. On the second night I found more prune flavors in the mix. Mouthwatering finish.

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  5/23/2023 - remyworldpeace Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Tasted at a 2020 vintage UGC tasting in Singapore. Quite a sweet boquwt with elegant dark cherry, blueberry and blackberry. Some liquorice and soft pine notes on finish.
  
  V nice potential when aged: 94-96+pts

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  3/21/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points

  Beau-Sejour Becot is on a hot streak and 2020 shows why. Opening with a wealth of flowers before you get to all the red, black and blue fruits, thyme, spice-box, espresso beans, cocoa and licorice in the bouquet. The palate is even better with its multiple-layers of crushed stones, sensuous fruits, velvet-tannins and long, expansive, lifted finish, with its hint of salt in the endnote. As I penned after tasting a barrel sample, this is a new level of quality at Beau-Sejour Becot that embraces less volume, but more intensity, and purity in the fruit. With their new cellars about to come into use, you are looking at a new level of Beau-Sejour Becot! Drink from 2025-2055.

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