2010 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse)

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  3/26/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points

  Canon vs. Duffau-Lagarrosse 2009-2020 tasted blind (Fribourg): Dark ruby, Rich and ripe, with licorice and dark fruit. Lots of structure but the tannins are better than in the first flight and the fruit is still fresh. A good notch more extracted than the 2010 Canon next to it.

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  3/25/2024 - sirpat00 wrote: 90 Points

  Vertical of Canon vs Beasejour Duffau Lagarrosse (Fribourg): Vertical of Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse vs Canon vs selected pirates 2005-2020. Main takeaways : i/ Canon trumps Beausejour overall, especially in more recent ones. ii/ Canon tends to be lighter-footed, more delicate while Beausejour is typically more extracted and ripe. iii/ St Emillion clearly struggles with the hotter vintages a few years on with 2005 the low-light, already exhibiting beef juice elements. iv/ best wines were Canon 2015 (95), 2019 and 2020 (94 each). Summary of wines and scores included in the tasting story.
  
  Tasting note:
  Medium plus intensity. Red and blue berries, herbal and vegetal notes of dry hay and green tea, Maybe some green bell pepper in the mix, too. Riper fruit on the palate, mouthcoating tannin but decent balance otherwise. Notably better today than in the 10-years on tasting.

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  6/3/2023 - Sacramento Geezer Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Some pro reviewers rate this like the RP fabled 1990 and it has all the dense fruit and structure. If I were younger I’d give it another decade or so. As it is, I pulled the cork and decanted at 8:00 AM and double decanted before dinner. Clearly a superior wine and could have decanted more or even with an aerator. Maybe the night before. A little too dense and bold post dinner without food. My own guess is I’d perhaps enjoy undistinguished vintages of this chateau as more representative of the house and terroir and perhaps more quaffable. That’s a tip from the technical director of Cheval Blanc, who recommended holding his own 2010 until 2024 (interestingly, he saw little confidence/foundation in collector/connoisseur drinking windows).

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  7/1/2022 - Mapka1 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Decanted 30 mins had 2 bottles with friends. Good wine, but inconsistent as one bottle was oxidized and other was not. Fulled bodied and is mature and should be drank within a few years. Smooth drinking, and finish.

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  9/24/2020 - tmagsmaken wrote: 93 Points

  Starting to open up. This is very big, delicious ripe fruit and bitter chocolate.

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