2023 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 96.5 points

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  5/4/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points

  The intensity, length, and purity are impossible to ignore this year. The wine offers strong floral characteristics coupled with sweet, ripe, red cherries, licorice, black raspberries, and a hint of cocoa. The wine is silky, elegant, long, and refined. The fruit is incredibly, soft, sweet, and pure. The key point in the vintage was their water-retentive, limestone terroir that nourished the vines during the dry part of the growing season. 2023 is the first vintage produced in the estates new cellars, which allowed for precision wine making, which was needed in this difficult vintage. The aging is different starting with the 2023 as well, now the wine is aged in 55% new, French oak barrels, with 20% of the harvest aging in foudres. The wine blends 77% Merlot, with 22% Cabernet Franc. 14.1%, ABV, 3.5 pH. The harvest took place, September 7 - October 4. Drink from 2029-2060. 96-98 Pts.

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  5/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 96 Points

  95-97 Punkte. Tiefdunkel und tiefgründig; steinig, rote Frucht, untermalt von kreidiger Mineralik; straffer Gaumen, delikate Frucht, federleicht und doch mit Konzentration, viel Dynamik; frisch, salin und würzig im Abgang auf Sauerkirschen. Ein tänzerischer Beau-Séjour Becot! (En Primeur Tasting April 2024, 14 Alkohol)

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