Chateau Beau Sejour Becot 2025

The Wine Cellar Insider: 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."

Wine Advocate: 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."

Vinum: Strahlender Duft, klar und rein, Johannisbeere, Hagebutte, Granatapfel, kalkige Mineralität; im Auftakt harmlos, fast scheu, baut dann einen grossen Druck auf, bleibt dabei hochelegant, die Tannine sind wie Samt und Seide, stets präsent, nie im Vordergrund, ausgezeichnet ausbalanciert, langanhaltend, spannungsvoll und mit erhabener Länge. Ein Dreiklang aus delikater Frucht, struktureller Kraft und kalkiger Frische."

Jeb Dunnuck: Sporting a stunning deep purple hue, the 2025 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot reveals cassis, graphite, liquid violets, and black raspberry on the nose, with a liquid rock-like minerality that speaks to this brilliant terroir. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, has ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish. It brings remarkable richness, polish, and depth alongside that classic sense of purity and minerality that this château consistently delivers today."

James Suckling: A medium-bodied red with a very salty and 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. 80% merlot and 20% cabernet franc."

Lisa Perrotti-Brown: Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot springs from the glass with vivacious notes of fresh blackberries, ripe black plums, and red currant preserves, giving way to nuances of rose bud tea, lavender, pencil lead, and iron ore, with a waft of mossy tree bark. The medium-bodied palate is wonderfully energetic with great tension from crisp acidity and tightly wound black and red berry layers, supported by very fine-grained tannins, finishing long and chalky. The blend is 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. The alcohol is 13.5% and the pH is 3.4."

Decanter: 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, nicely supportive but not intrusive. 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 - the real tension but not at all too tart or austere. There’s such a soft element that makes this really approachable. Very purity, pristine and clear - a real sensation of the limestone. 3.40pH. A yield of 32hlha. Ageing 37% oak casks."