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Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot History, Overview
The vineyards of Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot have a long and interesting history in the region. In fact, what we know of as Beau-Sejour Becot today was first cultivated with vines by the ancient Romans more than 2,000 years ago. There are cut stone remnants on their land to prove this.
In more modern times, what we know of as Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot began life as an estate owned by the monks of St. Martin Abbey in Saint Emilion. The monks managed the vineyards at what later become Chateau Canon as well as the vines used to eventually create Beau-Sejour Becot.
The first part of Beau-Sejour Becot found its name in 1787 with the help of a member of the Carles de Figeac family. Once, General Jacques de Carles said the estate should be called Beau-Sejour. The name stuck.
Skipping ahead over 100 years, Pierre-Paulin Ducarpe split the Beau-Sejour vineyards between his two children, giving the chateau, plus other structures along with half his vineyards to his daughter.
After she married, she took her husband’s name, Duffau-Lagarosse. That marriage gave birth to what we now know of as Chateau Beausejour-Duffau-Lagarosse. The other half of the property eventually became what we know of as Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot today.
In 1924, Chateau Beau-Sejour became the property of Doctor Jean Fagouet who renamed the property Beau-Sejour Fagouet. That name would not last long. During the 1940s, the wine was sold under the name of Chateau Beausejour. The next chapter in the estate’s history involved the Becot family. Michel Becot, who was working as an auto parts dealer, and his family were well acquainted with the land as they had been living in St. Emilion since 1760. They were also experienced wine producers as they owned neighboring Chateau La Carte since 1929.
In those days, Chateau La Carte was quite small with only 4.45 hectares of vines. Michel Becot increased the size of the estate with the purchase of 9 hectares of vines from the Beau-Sejour Fagouet vineyard. It was at that time, they renamed the estate, Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot.
Ten years later, the Becot family purchased the 4.5-hectare parcel of Trois Moulins, located next to what we know of now as Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot today.
Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot The Modern Era
Gerard Becot took over managing Beau-Sejour Becot in 1970. At this point, things should have been easy for the Becot family. But they weren’t. In 1979, they decided to merge their vineyards, placing all their grapes into Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot.
However, they did this without the approval of the INAO, which was a violation of the St. Emilion classification rules. For that transgression, Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot was demoted from their Premier Cru Classe classified status in 1986.
To remedy the situation, they hired their longtime friend, Michel Rolland and appealed the decision of the INAO. It took until the next classification, but Beau-Sejour Becot was once again promoted to Premier Cru Classe status in 1996.
Starting in 1985, the property has been managed by his sons, Gerard Becot and Dominique Becot. It was at this point that the family started making improvements at the property, lowering yields and producing better wine.
The daughter of Gerard Becot, Juliette Becot was later picked to become more involved in running Beau Sejour-Becot, as well as the family’s other properties in Saint Emilion and Joanin Becot, which is her estate in the Cotes de Castillon appellation.
Things changed again in 2014 when Juliette Becot and Julien Barthe were placed completely in charge of Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot, as well as the family’s other estates. Michel Rolland, who has been working with the estate since the 1980s ceased consulting the property in 2018. He was replaced by Thomas Duclos.
Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot Vineyards, Terroir, Grapes, Winemaking
The 22-hectare vineyard of Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot has 17 hectares of vines with the goal of being 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc. There is also a minor amount of Cabernet Sauvignon in the vineyard as well which is going to be removed.
On average the vines are close to 45 years of age. But they have old vines as well. In fact, some of their oldest Merlot vines date back almost 75 years. The Right Bank vineyard is planted to a vine density of 6,600 vines per hectare. Although new plantings are taking place at higher levels of density at 7,200 vines per hectare.
Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot is located on the limestone plateau of Saint Emilion with a terroir of clay that has deep, limestone soils. Below the surface there is an endless array of limestone tunnels and quarries, that really explain what makes the wine of Beau-Sejour Becot so special.
The vineyard increased in size in 2012. The increase in size was due to the inclusion of the vines previously used by their other Saint Emilion estate, La Gomerie. With the exception of that parcel, most of it is on top of the plateau.
Juliette Becot
The best vintages of Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot are: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2005, 2001, 2000, 1998 and 1990.
To produce the wine of Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot, a portion of the grapes are whole berry fermented. Vinification takes place in stainless steel tanks ranging in size from 80 to 100 hectoliters following a 4-day cold maceration. Microbullage is no longer used.
Malolactic fermentation takes place in the tank with the first four months of the aging spent on its post-malolactic lees. The remainder of the wine goes through malolactic fermentation in tanks.
The wine of Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot is aged in an average of 55% new French oak barrels. Although today, about 25% of the harvest is aged in clay amphora jars for an average of 18 months before bottling. Blending takes place quite early for the Right Bank in late December or January after the malolactic fermentation has completed.
The property produces close to 7,500 cases of Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot each year. There is a second wine, Tournelle de Beau-Sejour Becot, which was renamed in 2012 to Petit Becot by Beau-Sejour.
The family also produces a generic, AOC Bordeaux wine for early, drinking pleasure, made from vines outside of the Saint Emilion appellation, “Instant Becot”.
When to Drink Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot, Anticipated Maturity, Decanting Time
Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot is much better with at least 10-15 years of aging in good vintages. Young vintages can be decanted for 2-3 hours or more. This allows the wine to soften and open its perfume.
Older vintages might need very little decanting, just enough to remove the sediment. Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot offers its best drinking and should reach peak maturity between 10-30 years of age after the vintage.
Serving Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot with Wine, and Food Pairing Tips
Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift.
Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot is a perfect match with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta as well as cheese.
Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot is a great style of Saint Emilion combing richness, soft textures, and minerality. 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, and 2016 were clearly the finest vintages produced by Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot, until I tasted 2018, 2019, and 2020! Beau-Sejour Becot is on a roll these days.
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot Wine Tasting Notes
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2023
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
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. 3,431 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The bouquet of red and purple flowers stands out in the nose before you get to the sweet, red, black and blue fruits, licorice and spice. On the palate the wine is incredibly dense, sensuous, opulent and deep. Yet, with all the concentration, the wine is weightless, and effortless to drink. On the mid-palate, the waves of fruits keep coming as they coat your palate. The purity in the fruit, the energy, length, balance, and complexity is at a new level here. The seamless finish, with its ocean of berries, topped by a salty, crushed stones hits the 60 second mark. The best part of the experience is the velvet-drenched-texture that needs to be experienced. The wine blends 76% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.5%, ABV, 3.55 pH. The harvest took place, September 5 - September 26. Yields were 33 hectoliters per hectare. Make no mistake, this is the best wine ever produced at Beau-Sejour Becot. Drink from 2027-2060. 98-100 Pts. 10,452 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, cherries, flowers, cocoa, oceanic nuances, and and hint of cigar wrapper aromas crowd into the perfume. On the palate, the wine expresses purity, energy, grace and lift. The tannins are silky, the character is refined, relaxed, and most importantly, there is a gorgeous sense of purity in the red fruits that you sense in the mid-palate, all the way through to the elegant, long, energetic, sensual finish. The wine blends 85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a major success for the vintage. Drink from 2025-2050. 1,661 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Flowers, cherries, licorice, leafy herbs, spice, tobacco leaf and dark chocolate create the perfume. On the palate the wine is lush, soft, fresh, clean and most importantly, the wine expresses a gorgeous sense of purity in the red fruits that you sense in the mid-palate, which carries all the way through to the elegant, fresh, vibrant, long, energetic, sensual finish. The wine blends 85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13.5% ABV. The harvest took place September 21 - October 12. Drink from 2025-2050. 94-96 5,499 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
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. 5,327 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023With striking floral notes on the nose, you also find licorice, Asian spice, spearmint, cigar wrapper and an array of red and black plums. The wine is lifted, elegant, refined and focused on its purity and silky tannins. The energetic palate leaves you with layers of velvet-textured, sensuous, spicy fruits that lingers and expands for over 50 seconds in the finish. This is a new level of quality at Beau-Sejour Becot and also a change in style with less volume, but more intensity, purity and precision. The wine blends 85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.3% ABV. 96-98 Pts 9,083 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deep, dark, rich, full-bodied, concentrated and vivacious, the wine is packed with dark, black and red pit fruits, crushed stones, chocolate, licorice, flowers and forest leaf. The wine is powerful, refined, deep and fresh, with a finish that resonates with all of its ripe fruits and a touch of salinity in the long finish. This is their third vintage with Thomas Duclos as the consultant and each year seems to get better and better here. They are certainly on a hot roll at Beau-Sejour Becot these days! Give the wine a few years in the bottle and enjoy it for at least 2 decades after that. Drink from 2026-2055. 6,647 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022 |
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2018
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deeply colored, the wine is all about its sensuality. Texturally, the wine is silk and velvet with its layers of sweet, luscious plums, cherries, smoke and licorice. Full-bodied with a fabulous depth of flavor, seamless textures, vibrancy and purity of fruit, this is just great. The silky finish coats your mouth with flavor and the essence of pure fruit as it builds and expands. The wine is a blend of 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.. If I hadn't tasted the 2019, or heard about the 2020, I would have said this was the finest vintage ever produced at Beau-Sejour Becot. 8,045 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Just when I was sure the 2016 Beau-Sejour Becot was the best wine ever produced at the property, along comes the 2018! Deep in color, the wine shows a strong floral and mint accent with dark chocolate, black plums and even darker cherries. This is the highest level of concentration experienced with their wine, but it is also remarkably energetic. There is lift, vibrancy, minerality and multiple platforms of fleshy, opulent, sensual ripe, dark pit fruits. The silky finish coats your mouth with flavor and the essence of pure fruit. This is perfectly balanced between power and sensuality. The wine is a blend of 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, aging in a combination of 65% new, French oak with 35% of the wine raised in amphora and used oak casks. The Merlot was harvested from September 12-25 and the Cabernet's was picked between October 4 and October 10. 96-98 Pts 11,072 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Layers of lusciously textured, dark red fruits, licorice, smoke, black cherries, plums and spice create the perfume. Soft and silky in texture, with ample concentration, length freshness and complexity, this is a very good wine, especially for the vintage. 4,888 Views Tasted May 17, 2020Soft, lush, round and polished, the wine has flesh, ripeness, concentration and length. With a strong sensation of underlying minerality, you are also treated to dark chocolate, juicy ripe fruits, sweetness and volume. There is length, depth and a great mouth feel. This is the first vintage with Thomas Duclos as the consultant. It looks like they are on a roll here! 2,784 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fleshy, sensuous, polished and packed with all the ripe black fruits, licorice, smoke, crushed rock and truffle you could ask for. Full-bodied, silky and rich, with a long, fruit-intensive finish, hold your bottles for a decade and this is going to be star! 3,812 Views Tasted Sep 21, 2019This is the best wine from the Becot family yet! The wine is sexy, fleshy, opulent, polished and packed with all the fresh, ripe, silky, pure red fruits you need. The crushed rock, thyme and floral accents make this even better. Give this beauty 8-10 years in the cellar and you'll have a winner on your hands! This is one of those rare wines that still sell for a fair price, when you consider the extreme high-quality found here. 3,614 Views Tasted Feb 11, 2019Fresh, bright, crisp and stony, the full bodied, richly textured, polished wine is silky, multi-dimensional and offers nuances of crushed rocks, stones and flowers. 3,879 Views Tasted May 21, 2018Fresh, silky, ripe, soft and pure, there is a lovely stone, floral and dark berry quality with length and polished textures. The wine was made from 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, reaching 14.5% ABV with no touch of heat and freshness galore. 3,564 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Clearly the best ever produced at Beau-Sejour Becot. You know it from the moment you place your nose in the wealth of flowers, licorice, smoke, black and red plums, dark cherry, espresso, and forest aromatics. Once the wine hits your palate, the wine really takes off with its sensuous textures, silky tannins and long, concentrated layer of perfectly ripe, sweet, fresh fruits. As the wine remains on your palate, the flavors expand and the sensation of crushed stone makes its presence known as well. 6,816 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2018Spice, licorice, smoke, flowers and fresh plums create the nose. On the palate, the wine is a long, deep, silky, sexy and sensuous, French kiss. There is an alluring finesse in the tannins and a strong sense of purity in the fruit that is seldom seen. There is no sensation of heat in the wine, even though the ABV is the highest ever recorded at the estate. This wine was made from a blend of 80% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, reaching 15% ABV with a pH of 3.6 and aging in 70% new, French oak barrels. The harvest took place from October 2 to October 15. There might not be a second wine produced this year as the Becot family is very happy with the harvest and the small amount of wine designated for the second wine is probably too small to bottle separately. 5,523 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Round, soft, silky tannins, ripe, fresh, sweet, cherries, smoke, licorice and espresso on the nose, a fresh, mineral driven, red berry finish, create a delicious, age worthy treat. The wine was produced from a blend of 87% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Cabernet Franc. 5,689 Views Tasted Feb 5, 2017Earthy, truffle, black cherry and licorice scents are found on the nose. On the palate this wine serves up a luxurious, plumy, cocoa and mineral-filled finish. 91-93 Pts 2,657 Views Tasted Apr 27, 2015 |
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2013
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deep ruby in color with a nose of licorice, espresso, clay and black raspberry, the wine is medium bodied with an accessible, soft personality. The wine is fresh, spicy and finishes with sweet black cherries. From a blend 73% Merlot, 21% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine reached 14% ABV, and yields were 27 hectoliters per hectare. 90-92 Pts 5,325 Views Tasted Apr 28, 2014 |
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2012
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Polished, elegant, concentrated and silky smooth, with a good concentration of flavor, length and a supple, mineral and plum filled finish. 5,948 Views Tasted Mar 11, 2015This is the first vintage using the new cellar with the inverted stainless steel vats for vinification. The wine is filled with the essence of minerals, licorice and juicy plums with fresh blackberries, vanilla and fennel in the finish. Using 75 % Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine reached 14% ABV. 90-93 Pts 6,326 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon create the blend. The wine will be aged in 70% new oak. With deep color, truffle, floral, black raspberry, cherry blossom, licorice and vanilla, this round-textured wine ends with plush, polished and silky boysenberry, black cherry and stone. 40% of the wine is now being whole-berry fermented in 600% hectoliter barrels, which, according to Juliette Becot, adds richness and more opulent textures to the wine. 92-93 Pts 2,926 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2012 |
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2010
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With deep color, the wine offers silky, polished textures, sweet dark berries, licorice, crushed stone and ripe tannins. On the palate, the rich wine ends with layers of plush, ripe, generous fruits, that will only get better with time. 5,778 Views Tasted May 7, 2013Beau-Sejour Becot From an assemblage of 70% Merlot 25% Cabernet Franc with the remainder split evenly between Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot, this lovely wine opens with a perfume of crushed stone, licorice, jammy black plums and floral scents. Soft and opulently textured, this fresh, sweet, ripe St. Emilion wine ends with a mouthful of anise, minerality, red and black fruits. 92-94 Pts 5,140 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2009
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Continuing to develop nicely, the wine blends layers of ripe, opulent fruits with minerality, flowers, espresso, and licorice. There is length, complexity, and lift in the waves of fruit on the palate and in the finish. Drink now, or wait and gain additional complexities. Drink from 2023-2040. 2,902 Views Tasted Nov 21, 2023Clearly from a sunny vintage, the fruit is ripe, lush and sweet, while retaining its freshness. Secondary nuances of flowers, stone, spice, smoke, licorice and herbs are there from start to finish. The wine is full-bodied, lush and close to fully ready to drink. 3,030 Views Tasted Sep 20, 2019Close to fully mature, with a sensuous style coupled with juicy ripe plums, cocoa powder, tobacco, stone and truffle notes that ends with a plummy, spice filled, sweet finish. 6,317 Views Tasted Dec 18, 201370 % Merlot along with 15% Cabernet Franc and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon created a wine with intense floral, boysenberry, stone and licorice aromas that give way to a soft, low acid, sensuous, perfumed St. Emilion. This ends with plush, silky, fennel, chocolate and cherry. 7,214 Views Tasted Feb 10, 20122009 Beau-Sejour Becot is a deeply colored wine filled with the aromas of minerals, ripe blackberries, licorice, and chocolate. This full bodied, opulent, round textured, ripe wine has a long, chocolate covered black cherry finish with hints of licorice. 92-94 Pts 6,249 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2010 |
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2008
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Developing quite nicely, the wine offers freshness, crushed rocks, stones, florality, plums, espresso and thyme. Silky in texture, with a juicy, crisp character to the fruit in the finish, this is already starting to drink quite nicely. The wine was made from blending 70% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon. 2,423 Views Tasted Sep 17, 2018Coffee bean, cassis, blackberry and vanilla scents make up the perfume. Soft and round in texture, there is a lightly dusty sensation to the tannins. The wine ends with mineral, chocolate and black cherries. 8,494 Views Tasted Feb 17, 2012This wine opens with oak, stone, caramel, plum and black cherry aromas. It's full bodied, concentrated and elegant in texture with a finish that is filled with layers of sweet, fresh, black and red fruits. 92 Pts 6,051 Views Tasted Jan 25, 20112008 Beau-Sejour Becot starts with spice filled aromatics complicated with licorice, blackberry, oak, and earthy scents. Plush and full bodied, the wine ends with a mouthful of deep, fresh blackberry. 93 Pts 6,115 Views Tasted Jul 18, 201008 Château Beau-Sejour Becot shows a lot of black cherry, minerals, and plum on the nose. Full bodied, structured, and stuffed with ripe fruit, the wine offers a long, black fruit filled finish. 91-94 Pts 6,221 Views Tasted Aug 1, 2009 |
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2007
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Ready to drink, the wine is medium bodied, and leaning to the brighter, red fruit range, but not quite, with its dark cherry and plummy fruits. Soft, elegant and fresh, with tobacco, earth and floral nuances, this is drinking at close to peak today. 5,613 Views Tasted Aug 26, 2017 |
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2006
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Showing maturity in color, the tobacco, earth, truffle and plum aromatics are ready to shine. Medium bodied, silky, soft and mineral driven, this is just starting to drink in its sweet spot, where it should remain for years. 2,988 Views Tasted May 25, 2016From an assemblage of 70% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, this deep colored St. Emilion offers an enticing nose of fennel, stone, espresso, black plums, flowers and spice. With round textures and a good depth of flavor, this vintage of Beau-Sejour Becot is developing better than expected. Give it another 5 more years of bottle age, to allow it to add more complexity and softer textures. 4,500 Views Tasted Oct 8, 2011 |
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2005
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Mint, tobacco, cherries, black raspberries, toffee, and espresso crowd onto the nose. Medium-bodied, fresh, reserved, with a core of bright, crunchy, salty fruit on the backend. Drink from 2024-2040. 2,611 Views Tasted Jul 9, 2024Ready to go at close to 17 years of age, the wine delivers its mineral driven, dark red fruits, herbs, licorice, plum and dried floral nuances easily. Medium/full-bodied, soft, earthy tinged cherries and plums are all over the place on your palate and in the finish. 5,019 Views Tasted Oct 8, 2021From a blend 70% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, this is showing better than ever. Lush, sexy textures, crushed stone, sweet, fresh, vibrant black cherry, licorice and cocoa on the nose, a long, fresh, silky finish are what you find in this beauty. 6,305 Views Tasted Jun 27, 2015Still young and needing coaxing to bring out the stone, blackberry liqueur, truffle and sweet oak notes, this full bodied, deep, refined wine ends with fresh blackberry, cherry and minerality essences. Another 5 years will add a lot of complexity and depth to this wine. When matrue, this should gain a Pt or two in the ratings. 2005 remains my favorite vintage of Beau-Sejour Becot. 10,442 Views Tasted Jul 12, 2011Balance, ripeness, richness and a very sexy palate feel with good structure make this a wonderful wine. This will age longer than most vintages of Beau-Sejour Becot. 10,795 Views Tasted Jan 20, 2008 |
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2004
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium bodied, soft, elegant and fresh, the plummy, cherry, licorice and earthy, mineral driven wine delivers a lot of pleasure today. The wine was made from a blend of 70% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon. 3,971 Views Tasted Nov 30, 2014 |
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2003
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Soft, supple, forward and ready to go, with its sweet, red and dark berries, smoke, licorice and forest floor personality. Lush and polished in texture, the wine has charm, complexity and character. 3,921 Views Tasted Jul 2, 2015 |
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2002
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Not without charm, but the wine is better on the nose, with its earthy, herbal, tobacco and red plum notes, than on the palate, which leans to the austere side. 4,084 Views Tasted Dec 21, 2017 |
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2001
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Soft, round and luscious in texture, this truffle, black cherry, stone and licorice infused wine is drinking great today. 6,034 Views Tasted Nov 27, 2012 |
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2000
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
At just past 10 years of bottle age, this is starting to open nicely, with a nose packed with earth, truffle, crushed stone, juicy plums and tobacco. Refined, elegant and soft, the finish leaves you with a rich sensation of pure, ripe blackberries. 4,723 Views Tasted Jan 29, 2013With a nose filled with truffles, minerals, plums and smoke, this soft, round textured, elegant, St. Emilion wine is open and enjoyable to drink today. The wine ends with fresh, sweet, jammy blackberries, earth and dark cherry notes. The wine has improved since I last tasted it about 3 years ago. 5,619 Views Tasted Feb 4, 2012Already showing a bit of lightness around the edges, this black fruit, earth, mineral and truffle perfumed wine improved a lot in the glass. Full bodied with soft textures, this is starting to display all its ample charms. 7,235 Views Tasted Jan 15, 2009 |
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1999
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, bright and on the sharp red fruit side, the nose, with its earth, licorice, smoke and kirsch nose is better than on the crisp, red plum palate. 2,372 Views Tasted Feb 9, 2019 |
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1998
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully-mature and still going strong, the wine is soft, supple, creamy and effortlessly shows off its salty, chocolate-covered cherries, and red plums with ease in the perfume, and on the palate. This has developed well. But, if you want to know what’s really going on at Beau-Sejour Becot today, you need to taste some of the current vintages as they’ve upped their game and are producing the best wines in the history of the estate today! Drink from 2023-2030. 2,494 Views Tasted Dec 17, 2023Fully mature, the gorgeous nose with its focus on truffles, flowers, earthy cherries and tobacco get the wine going. At this stage, there is the patina of age which shows silky textures, and an elegant, earthy, dark cherry and licorice tinged finish. 4,754 Views Tasted Aug 23, 2017 |
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1995
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully mature, this is one of the better wines from this often, stern vintage. The tannins are soft and polished. The fruit is fresh, ripe, clean and pure. The nose offers up a distinctive, thyme, espresso, truffle, mocha covered, black cherry and plum personality. The silky texture and ripe, red fruits taste as nice as it feels. You can drink this now, or age it for further development. 3,500 Views Tasted Nov 18, 2017 |
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1990
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fully mature, with the color and texture that comes with the patina of age. Spicy, earthy, tobacco and cherry notes, with a hint of flowers come out first. From there you find, elegant textures and a soft, polished, sweet cherry finish. There is no reason to hold this bottle any longer. 4,404 Views Tasted Jun 18, 2017Fully mature, with a nose of truffle, earth, tobacco, blackberry, thyme and plum, the wine is soft, smooth and ready for prime time drinking. 3,273 Views Tasted May 13, 2015 |
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1989
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Kicked off with a spicy nose filled with blackberry, truffle and cherry. This medium bodied wine is fully mature. The ‘89 lacks the same level of depth and ripeness found in current vintages. 5,144 Views Tasted Jun 18, 2009 |
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1961
Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Tasting much younger than it's 53 years of age suggests, this charmer was round, polished and complex, with a tobacco, truffle, smoke, earth and sweet, ripe, black cherry and plummy filled personality. What a treat and thrill to taste. 2,497 Views Tasted Oct 6, 2014 |
