2025, Château Beau-Séjour Bécot, SAINT-ÉMILION, Grand Cru

This 22 hectare vineyard is very well situated close to Canon and Belair Monange, just to the west of the village of St Emilion.  Thomas Duclos is the consultant here - as he is at neighbouring Canon.

2025 Bécot is 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc.

The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot continues this estate's brilliant run of vintages with what will surely number among their finest to date. 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 centre in the glass. 97-99 William Kelley, Wine Advocate.

A medium-bodied red with a very bright character and a lovely, silky texture. It’s round, polished and intense. Superb finish of mineral and iron undertones. Racy and refined. A unique wine with a texture like a great Burgundy. 97-98 James Suckling.

An ethereal wine from Beau-Séjour Bécot this year. Fragrant blackcurrants and black cherries. High energy from the get go, this has such verve and focus from the start with a zing in the mouth; juicy, succulent, gorgeous and friendly. Generous in terms of sweet, juicy acidity, mouthwatering but soft and creamy so you get a wide mouthfeel. Tannins perfectly placed. Layers of fresh red fruits, a little touch of salinity on the finish, crunchy cranberries with a soft lick of salt wet stones. I love the precision. Very pure, pristine and clear – a real sensation of the limestone. 96 Georgina Hindle, Decanter.

Mineral-rich black and red fruit, clearly limestone-driven, touches of graphite and briny scents emerge with time. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid red fruit, mainly raspberry with some white-tipped strawberry. Like others, the limestone really comes through in this wine. Linear and correct on the finish, again, it will gain more flesh during its barrel maturation and it will become an extremely fine and classy Saint-Émilion. Drink 2032 - 2058 94-96 Neal Martin.