Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B 2023

Name: Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B
Brand: Beau Sejour Becot
SKU: 62501H
Price: 486 EUR
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2: Merlot 77%, Cabernet Franc 21%, Cabernet Sauvignon 2%

5: rød, tør; 14,0% Vol.; Modenhed til at drikke: 2030–2060; Pakket ind i: 6 OHK flad

9: voluminøs og kraftfuld; rig på tanniner

3: Lobenberg: 98+/100; Decanter: 97/20; Parker: 96–98/100; Jeff Leve: 96–98/100; Colin Hay: 96–98/100; Suckling: 96–97/100; The Wine Independent: 95–97+; Galloni: 95–98/100

6: Frankrig, Bordeaux, Saint Emilion

7: Allergener: Sulfitter,

Tapperi / Importør: Beausejour Becot, , 33330 Saint Emilion, FRANKREICH

77 procent Merlot, 21 procent Cabernet Franc og to procent Cabernet Sauvignon. Alkoholindholdet er 14 volumenprocent. Modnet i 55 procent nyt træ, 20 procent et år gammelt træ og 25 procent amforaer og store træfade. Udbyttet i 2023 var 39 hektoliter pr. hektar. Parfumeret næse med rosenblade, violer og fyldige røde kirsebær samt blomme og et strejf af hyben. Meget spændende næse, meget unik! Fin nougat nedenunder og fløde. Chic, moden næse med masser af polering. Røde kirsebær igen i munden, også sorte kirsebær og surkirsebær. Alle kirsebærsmagene er meget fine og delikate. Dejlig salt finish med kalksten og kridt, et fint lakridsunderlag og en hel del mynte. Alt passer sammen, meget harmonisk! Et meget elegant år, den minder mig også om 2020 i sin finesse, hvilket er en sand fornøjelse! Hvis Canon, Beausejour og Belair ikke var direkte naboer med dramatisk gode, bedre vine, kunne Becot blive vurderet endnu højere. *** Beau-Séjour Bécot ligger på det bedste terroir på skråningerne i Saint-Émilion, på toppen af plateauet. Ren kalksten med lidt ler. Vingården er direkte nabo til Angélus og Coutet og har været i fremgang i årevis og er blevet bedre og bedre i takt med, at brugen af nyt træ er blevet reduceret. Vinene bliver mere afbalancerede. Terroiret er altid godt nok til at være med i forreste række. I 2018 blev der ansat en ny teknisk direktør, som kun er 35 år gammel, men som allerede har rejst den halve verden rundt - inklusive Australien og New Zealand. Allerede en meget erfaren og innovativ mand. Siden da har stilen på Bécot ændret sig radikalt. Konsulenten siden skiftet er Thomas Duclos.

Bordeaux 2023 fra en eksperts perspektiv på et modent og tidligt drikkeligt år med elegante, smigrende og silkeagtige tanniner, en høj nydelsesfaktor og et saftigt drikkeflow: Stephane Derenoncourt, ønolog, konsulent på højre og venstre bred, vinmager, en levende legende i Bordeaux: "Tanninerne var modne og af høj kvalitet overalt. Druerne viste fuld teknologisk og fenolisk modenhed. Vinene fra denne årgang er generelt harmoniske og dynamiske." *** Thomas Duclos, førende konsulent og ønolog på højre bred: "Vi opdagede konstant nye ting i 2023-årgangen. Det ville ikke overraske mig, hvis nogle 2023-vine om nogle år viser sig at være bedre end 2022-vinene. Årgang 2023 er meget smigrende: vi har en behagelig blødhed i eftersmagen uden tyngde, elegante teksturer, overraskende silkeagtige..." *** Axel Marchal, førende professor i ønologi ved universitetet i Bordeaux: "På trods af de ekstreme vejrforhold har 2023-årgangen produceret vine med god balance og smukke syrenoter. Vinene er meget behagelige, ikke enormt koncentrerede, men lækre, runde og frugtagtige." *** Michel Rolland, ønolog og vingårdskonsulent og Bordeaux-veteran: "Det aromatiske potentiale var godt, med fremragende aromatisk intensitet og modne frugtsmage. 2023 er en årgang uden overskud og overdådighed. Behagelig, lækker og nem at drikke!

Decanter om: Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B

A brilliant wine from this estate in 2023. Gorgeous bright purple rim. Fresh blueberries and black cherries on the nose with crayon, pencil lead, tapenade, olive and liquorice. Tangy and so alive on the palate, crystalline and pure, really clean and clear. The limestone comes through strongly in the wet stone aspects, a metallic coating of the mouth. This has a touch of tension, with mouthwatering acidity, as well as some subtle fleshiness that really expands towards the finish, where the wine settles and grows. A lovely, very singular style. Great juiciness, almost salty strawberry juice with cranberry and raspberry that really lingers. This will grow into a beauty. Tannins are flawless, there’s density but no heaviness. One of the best! The second year with a significant part of massale selection Cabernet Franc in the blend. 39hl/ha yield. 3.5pH, 68 IPT.

Parker om: Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B

The first vintage produced in the estate's highly functional new winery, the 2023 Beau-Séjour Bécot has turned out beautifully and looks likely to rival or surpass the brilliant 2022. Unfurling in the glass with notes of raspberries, dark berries and minty cherries mingled with notions of iris, wisteria and lilac, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and velvety, with a suave attack that prefaces a cool, complete core of fruit that's pure, perfumed and mineral, concluding with a long, saline finish. It's a blend of 77% Merlot and 23% Cabernet Franc that was harvested from September 7 to October 4, sub-block by sub-block.

Jeff Leve om: Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B

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.

Colin Hay om: Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B

(Saint Émilion; 77% Merlot; 23% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 39 hl/ha with the old vines; aging in oak barrels, 55% of which are new; tasted at Beau-Séjour Bécot with Jean de Cournuaud; the first vintage to be vinified in the new chai, serendipitously received just a few days before the harvest began). Beautifully dark berried and highly pixilated in its detail. Raspberry, blueberry, mulberry. Graphite. Pencil-shaving. Violet. On the palate we find violet-encased black cherry and blueberry – with a vivid sense of the texture of the whole berries and the skin of the cherry. Polished, silky but with great compactness and density in the mid-palate. Very spherical and with a gracious long tapering descent towards the distant horizon. Asymptotic! A deeply impressive wine. So fresh and clean and focussed, with a lovely structural pinch before the fantail, sculpted by the crumbly limestone tannins. I love the florality here and the sense of it being fully interwoven with the fruit across the palate. Indeed, it has me craving a re-tasting in 10 years’ time of this alongside Clos Fourtet – both extremely gracious but very differently formed, each highly floral and each brilliantly expressive of its limestone terroir.

Suckling om: Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B

A wine with very bright and al-dente fruit. Aromas and flavors of redcurrants and minerals with lavender and chalk. Medium to full body and a solid core of tannins integrated with the dark fruit. Toned-muscle quality to the tannins. Fresh and vibrant at the end. Pure fruit. Energy. 77% merlot and 23% cabernet franc. 96–97/100

The Wine Independent om: Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B

A blend of 77% Merlot, 21% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2023 Beau-Sejour Becot has a pH of 3.5. It is ageing in 55% new oak barriques, 20% one-year-old barrels, and 25% in a mix of amphorae and 20 hl oak casks. It has a deep garnet-purple color and comes galloping out of the glass with notes of crushed plums, black raspberries, and Morello cherries, opening out to a delicate undercurrent of garrigue, crushed rocks, violets, cranberry sauce, and pencil shavings. The medium-bodied palate is breathtakingly elegant and racy, with intense red and black berry layers and a fine-grained texture, finishing with energetic mineral sparks.

Galloni om: Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 1er Grand Cru Classe B

The 2023 Beau-Séjour Bécot is fabulous. Rich, opulent and explosive to the core, the 2023 offers up a heady mélange of dark red/purplish fruit, spice, lavender, rose petal, blood orange and bright saline notes. As always, Cabernet Franc plays an important role in shaping the aromatic and flavor profile. The 2023 is an absolute stunner. It’s the first vintage made in the new cellar. That's of course not enough of a track record to make any definitive assessments, but in the 2023, I see a wine with more aromatic presence, greater precision and more refined tannins than any recent vintage I can recall. In a word: magnificent. Tasted two times.

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