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2020 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot
For laying down
Product: 20208109815
2020 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Description

Merlot 85%, Cabernet Franc 13%, Cabernet Sauvignon 2%

Juliette Bécot’s revolution continues. The bouquet is pure and bright. It is juicy and primary, but with a coolness and elegance underneath. The palate has a fine linearity. Although there’s 14.5% alcohol, there’s no sense of it at all; the palate skips and lifts. The flavours are of the finest Kentish cherries. This is a pretty wine, underpinned by chalky tannins. It is a breath of pure air, yet still represents the vintage in its sunny generosity. For anybody that says you can’t taste terroir: this could only come from St Emilion’s limestone.

Drink 2026-2040

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Merlot
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Beau-Séjour Bécot

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Château Beau-Séjour Bécot

Château Beau-Séjour Bécot has experienced some dramatic ups and downs in recent decades: it was classified a Premier Grand Cru Classé B in 1955, demoted in 1986 and promoted once again, as a Premier Grand Cru Classé B, in 1996.
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