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Château Beau-Séjour Bécot ligger på det berømte kalkstensplateau i hjertet af Saint-Émilion – et terroir, der i århundreder har givet vine med en særlig dybde og friskhed. Familien Bécot har haft rødder her siden den franske revolution og har gennem generationer været med til at præge appellationens historie. I 1969 købte Michel Bécot selve Château Beau-Séjour og forenede det med familiens eksisterende jord, så ejendommen i dag dækker omkring 20 hektar. Under vinmarkerne gemmer sig syv hektar gamle kalkstensgange, hvor tusinder af flasker hviler i ideelle forhold – et poetisk billede på, hvordan fortid og nutid mødes i dette slot.
I dag drives Beau-Séjour Bécot af sjette generation, som med samme passion og respekt for jorden fortsætter familiens arbejde. Gérard og Dominique Bécot moderniserede både mark og kælder med skånsomme metoder og minutiøs sortering af druerne, mens den yngre generation har videreført husets filosofi om balance mellem tradition og innovation. Vinen bærer tydeligt præg af kalkstenen: en rig, mørkfrugtet Merlot med Cabernet Francs løft og Cabernet Sauvignons rygrad. Det er en vin, der forener Saint-Émilions klassiske elegance med Beau-Séjour Bécots egen signatur af energi, præcision og varme.
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BEPLANTNING
80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon
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AREAL
20 hektar
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SLOTTETS ANDEN VIN
Chapelle d’Ausone
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EJER
Familien Bécot
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Beau-Sejour Becot has been on fire lately, and the 2025 shows why. Concentrated, lusciously textured, creamy, and fresh, the wine delivers an intensity of fruit and a surreal sense of purity that hits all your pleasure buttons. The finish is all about its nonstop, seamless layers of velvety fruit that coat your palate as they linger for over 60 seconds. The wine is aged in 50% new French oak barrels, along with foudres and amphora. The wine blends 78% Merlot with 22% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV, 3.5 pH. The harvest took place September 25 - October 4. Drink from 2030-2060.
The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot has all the requisites to take its place alongside the 2022 and the other extraordinary wines of 2025. Aromatic and layered, with striking presence, the 2025 is majestic. Deep, dark red fruit, pomegranate, mint, chalk, white pepper, rose petal and lavender soar from the glass. Bright saline notes drive through the mid-palate and into a finish marked by intense fruit and vibrant minerality. The purity here is just off the charts. Yields were 32 hectoliters per hectare. The 2025 saw a cold soak of 15 days followed by another 27 days or so on the skins, on the longer side for Bordeaux. Blending is done before the wines see oak. There are good wines, exceptional wines, and then emotional wines. Beau-Séjour Bécot falls into the third category. Unforgettable. Tasted two times.
The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot continues this estate's brilliant run of vintages with what will surely number among their finest to date. A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, this compelling wine opens in the glass with a pure and incipiently complex bouquet of dark berries and plums mingled with floral accents of iris and lilac. Medium- to full-bodied, deep and layered, with a concentrated core of fruit, sweet tannin and a bright spine of animating acidity, it concludes with a long, mineral finish. Beau-Séjour Bécot's limestone terroir is front and center in the glass.