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1998 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot |
| Vintage | 1998 |  Label 1 of 10   | |
| Type | Red | ||
| Producer | Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (web) | ||
| Variety | Red Bordeaux Blend | ||
| Designation | n/a | ||
| Vineyard | n/a | ||
| Country | France | ||
| Region | Bordeaux | ||
| SubRegion | Libournais | ||
| Appellation | St. Émilion Grand Cru |
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| Wine Market Journal quarterly auction price: See Beausejour Becot on the Wine Market Journal. |
| Community Tasting History |
Community Tasting Notes (average 90.2 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 43 notes) | |
| Tasted by vanpe003 on 6/15/2010 & rated 91 points: No detailed notes. Drank at cabin. Seemed to be in it's prime. (435 views) | |
| Tasted by Wineosseur on 5/29/2010 & rated 91 points: (342 views) | |
| Tasted by rougevin on 3/24/2010 & rated 92 points: (577 views) | |
| Tasted by cnordstr on 2/26/2010 & rated 91 points: From half bottle, this is a great St Emilion, drinking well now, full of fruit and very smooth, light tannins. (866 views) | |
| Tasted by pgordon62 on 2/8/2010 & rated 90 points: Satisfying nose of barnyard/earthy plum, old leather, crushed red berry and a little anise. Medium bodied and elegant, with flavors of redder berry, licorice and lighter rocky earth. Moderate length, sweet tannin and good acids. Text book, feminine Right Bank that just lacks some concentration. (990 views) | |
| Tasted by cnordstr on 1/26/2010 & rated 91 points: Wonderful, deep, bouquet, full of dark berries and fruit. THe nose promises a lot and the taste actually delivers pretty well on these expectations. Long, oaky, light but yet fulfilling taste. Nice one! (tasted from half bottle) (1096 views) | |
| Tasted by Winetex on 1/25/2010: This bottle was definitely sub-par. It had no integration with heavy tannins and high acidity making the finish sour. Not rated as this did not even seem like the same wine as the first bottle we tried. We did not finish this which is a good indication of what we thought of it. Decanted about 15 minutes with little improvement. Heavy sediment. (1107 views) | |
| Tasted by cbuhl on 1/16/2010 & rated 91 points: decanted 1 hour.light garnet. heavy sediment. delicious and drinking well.(consistent with previous note) Perhaps a bit exuberant with previous scoring though. (1126 views) | |
| Tasted by BigJul23 on 12/19/2009 & rated 90 points: Offrande spontanée de Bordeaux70. Un nez beaucoup plus exubérant que le Château Latour 2002 bu à ses côtés, offrant fruits noirs, cacao, moka, caramel et fleurs séchées. Se compare étonnamment bien à son voisin, bien qu’il possède un petit côté aguicheur qui me plaît moins. Dense et riche. 90 (1259 views) | |
| Tasted by AtoZ on 11/4/2009 & rated 90 points: Ready to go. Nice earthy. Less perfumey than in past. Roast chicken with d and s. (1378 views) | |
| Tasted by Rechrom on 10/25/2009 & rated 91 points: Drinking very well. Great nose of fruit, leather, cocoa. Nice palate, complex, good mouthfeel. Finish very good but not great. At peak likely to my taste. (1419 views) | |
| Tasted by Francofiel on 10/11/2009 & rated 86 points: Colour hasn't budged in the year since I drank the previous bottle. Nose dominated by pine needles, with some red fruit. Tannins have softened, taste still very dry with little fruit. Finishes as it began: some pine needles, a little bitter. On the positive side: there is balance and a hint of elegance. On the negative side: lacks fruit, a tad simple. Still not sure where this is going or if I like the style. (1449 views) | |
| Tasted by euge.lee on 8/27/2009 & rated 90 points: (1326 views) | |
| Tasted by noppakit s. on 7/22/2009 & rated 92 points: Opened 2 hours before drinking. Ah ha...the nose is taking me back when we first met in 1994. ( Vintage 1985 and 1986 ) Old clean barrel, fruits, earth, flowers, rose, game. This is a wonderful compact nose. Structure is firm, full, great balance and as easy delicious as its style. Very nice and firm finished...the promising !!! Drink now - 2022....92-93+/100..... (1776 views) | |
| Tasted by dbkitc on 7/19/2009 & rated 87 points: Remains youthfully garnet. Slightly wild nose of red and blue fruits mixed with charcoal, burnt herbs and gravel. Rich feel, though medium intensity. Mature, monolythic and ready to go, this is a decidedly modern styled Bordeaux. Should stay on the current drinking plateau for the next 7 to 10 years. (87) (1677 views) | |
| Tasted by Employee500 on 6/28/2009 & rated 93 points: Great (1893 views) | |
| Tasted by steffenpelz on 6/6/2009: Tasted over the course of three nights. Started out well on night 1, turned ugly on night 2, and ended up drinking great on night 3. On night one, came out of the bottle pretty primary. Lots of blackberry coffee and earth with a hint of oak. On night two, wine got very jammy and fruit had plushed up (not in a good way). Oak had come to the forefront. On night three, oak had receded, and acid came out instead. Combined with the earth and blackberry flavors, it made for a solid bottle of wine. Seem like it will need more time to come together. (1893 views) | |
| Tasted by JimHow on 5/27/2009 & rated 90 points: This wine shows nice improvement from when I last had it a couple years ago. A dense purple color, strong bouquet, showing some nice character of tobacco, chocolate, and cassis, a level of complexity that I don't recall from a couple years ago. This is not going to be an upper level wine but it is a 90-pointer and will improve even more with another three to five years under its belt. Lots of funk present. (1935 views) | |
| Tasted by Chuck Miller on 5/9/2009 & rated 91 points: Tons of fruit on the nose, still tannic, hold several years. (1914 views) | |
| Tasted by Tylerk on 4/11/2009 & rated 87 points: (1673 views) | |
| Tasted by Employee500 on 1/19/2009 & rated 91 points: Terrifically pleasant maturing Right Bank. Rich fruit (cherry, blackberry) but nicely balanced with some secondary and tertiary nuance. Pepper and cinnamon. All you can ask for, really...I question whether some of the 86-88 point notes on Cellartracker were tasting bottles purchased upon release and well-stored since. This easily has another 10 years of life, but I don't see any particular upside and would really want to enjoy mine over the next 2-3 years.... (2020 views) | |
| Tasted by Wine-Strategies on 12/22/2008 & rated 91 points: This is quite youthful at the moment. A medium+ body with firm, nearly chewy tannins. Wonderful texture and richness of fruit. Above-average balance and acidity round this out nicely. It has at least a decade ahead of it. 13% abv, approx $65 (2051 views) | |
| Tasted by LEOCORP on 11/24/2008 & rated 93 points: Ruby not much development, The nose has a dark fruit cocktail, blackcurrant cherry Asian spice cedar the nose is wonderful, In the mouth the wine is medium bodied with medium acidity with medium tannins the is rich a very flavoursome I get black fruits’ with a little hint of coffee the wine has a very long finish and a good future (2114 views) | |
| Tasted by Rechrom on 11/9/2008 & rated 92 points: Drinking very well, great depth, complex palate, secondary notes on nose and palate, still red but in a very good window to drink with a hearty meal; not a fruit bomb, which to me is good news. (2085 views) | |
| Tasted by Blair Curtis on 10/25/2008 & rated 88 points: A 10-Years-Out Retrospective of 1998 St. Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classe B (Vancouver, B.C.): Compared to the Figeac, quite mute. Lacks a bit of concentration. Soft and a bit plushy. A little bitter on the finish. Does, however, have pretty good mid-palate concentration. (2172 views) | |
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About the Winery Beau-Sejour-Becot
Situated on the St Martin de Mazerat plateau, immediately to the west of the
old town, Beau-Séjour Bécot lies in the very heart of the Saint-Emilion
appellation area. Since Gallo-Roman times, the site has been devoted to
wine growing. The monks of Saint-Martin de Mazerat in the Middle
Ages, followed by the Gères, lords of Camarsac fostered this know-how
in their turn. In 1722 one of their descendants, Jeanne de Gères, brought
the Domaine de Peycoucou – the peak where the cuckoo sings – into the
estate of the Carles de Figeac family on her marriage. In 1787 General
Jacques de Carles, who wished to leave to posterity the memory of the
pleasure he had enjoyed in living there, renamed the estate Beau-Séjour.
Through sales and legacies - General Jacques de Carles was without
successors - Beau-Séjour eventually came into the possession in 1924 of
Doctor Jean Fagouet, who enlarged the vineyard, increasing its surface
area to 10.5 hectares (26 acres). Michel Bécot, born into a wine growing
family who had lived in Saint-Emilion since 1760 and owner of the
neighbouring Château La Carte since 1929, purchased the estate in 1969.
In 1979, the Bécot family further enlarged the estate with the purchase
of 4.5 hectares (11 acres) on the Trois Moulins plateau. The estate,
which then became known as Château Beau-Séjour Bécot, is today a
substantial 16.6-hectare (41-acre) holding on a perfectly uniform terroir.
Michel Bécot retired in 1985, turning over the management of the
Château to his two sons Gérard and Dominique.
About the Wine
"The wine is a blend of 70% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon - the grapes are fermented in temperature-controlled, stainless steel vats, and the wine is matured in oak barriques (50-70% new) for 18-20 months. The ubiquitous Michel Rolland is a consultant at Beau-Séjour Bécot and the wines, not surprisingly, are full-bodied, concentrated and rich with layers of seductive cassis-scented fruits and hints of smoky new oak."
About Red Wines The variety Red Bordeaux Blend on CellarTracker implies any blend using any or all of the five traditional Bordeaux varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec. As such, this is used worldwide, whether for wines from Bordeaux, Meritages from California and Canada, some Super-Tuscan wines etc. Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia) Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) | Simple Bordeaux primer Libournais (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) Saint Emilion Grat Classified Growth, Classified Growths, Grands Crus Classes, GCC In 1954, while the "Graves" growths had just published their own classification, the wine syndicate of Saint-Emilion, composed by wine growers, brokers and wine traders with the approval of the INAO - Institut National des Appellations d'Origine (A.O.C), decided to work on a classification for the wines of Saint Emilion. Initially, four grades were defined. These were reduced to two - First Great Classified Growth (A and B) and Great Classified Growth - in 1984. As of Medoc's 1855 historical grading, the Saint-Emilion Great Classified Growth classification is not only based on qualitative criteria by tasting the wines on a ten years period previous to the assessment, but also on commercial considerations such as: - sales price levels - national and international commercial distribution - the estate's reputation on the market Properties who don't manage to join the club of about sixty Classified Growths are given the denomination of Great Growth ("Grand Cru"), while the remaining wineries of the A.O.C are simply reported as "Saint-Emilion". It is to be noted that the owners must officially apply to appear in the official classification. Thus for example the famous Chateau Tertre-Roteboeuf, whose quality and reputation would easily justify to be listed among the First Great Classified Growths, does not appear here by the will of its owner, François Mitjaville. The Saint-Emilion Great Growth classification was revised in 1969, 1985, 1996 and 2006. The only two guaranteed vintage (A.O.C) who can apply to the classification are the "Saint-Emilion Grand Cru" and "Saint-Emilion" areas. By grading 61 properties, the 2006 revision confirmed many growths from the former classification, but also caused a number of surprises and a few inevitable disappointments. Many observers thought that the impressive progression of Perse's Chateau Pavie since 1998 would be rewarded by an upgrade into the First Great Classified Growths (A) category, but finally such was not the case. Among the estates promoted to the First Great Classified Growths B category are Chateau Troplong-Mondot and Pavie-Macquin, whose efforts made since the Nineties fully justify their new grade. It should be noted that no First Great Classified Growth was relegated to the lower Great Classified Growth class. Promoted growths from the status of Great Growth ("Grand Cru") to Great Classified Growth ("Grand Cru Classe") are: Chateaux Bellefont-Belcier, Destieux, Fleur Cardinale, Grand Corbin, Grand Corbin-Despagne and Monbousquet. The demoted growths from the status of Great Classified Growth to Great Growth are: Chateaux Bellevue, Cadet Bon, Faurie de Souchard, Guadet Saint-Julien, La Tour du Pin-Figeac (Belivier), La Tour du Pin-Figeac (Moueix), Lamarzelle, Petite Faurie de Soutard, Tertre Daugay, Villemaurine and Yon-Figeac. If the recent samples of some of the above mentioned properties may justify their current downgrade, there are great chances that estates like Bellevue, Tertre Daugay or Yon-Figeac will be upgraded to their previous rankings by the next revision in 2016 as the progresses noted after 2000, but not entering in the range of vintages (1993 - 2002) appointed for the criteria of selection for the 2006 classification, are noticable. The two following estates have completely disappeared from the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classification: Curé-Bon-la-Madeleine (integrated meanwhile to Chateau Canon) and La Clusière (integrated meanwhile to Chateau Pavie). Finally, no estate considered as "garagiste" has integrated the classification. Valandraud, Mondotte, Le Dome, Bellevue-Mondotte or Magrez-Fombrauge have, for the least, the potential to be ranked as Great Classified Growths. In sight of the very fine quality reached by the above mentioned estates in recent vintages as well as all the innovative wine making methods used by the "garagistes", it remains to be seen whether the authorities will dare to cross the line in 2016..? Les Vins de St. Émilion (Syndicate Vitocole de Saint-Emilion) |
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