Beau-Séjour Bécot 2015

Very perfumed with crushed berries and blackberries. Wet earth and great intensity. Decadent. Full-bodied, layered and very velvety and intense. Extremely long and intense. A sexy and opulent wine yet poised and tight. One of best ever. Needs at least three to five years bottle age.

The 2015 Beau-Sejour Becot is composed of 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon aged in 85% new and 15% one-year-old French oak for 17 months. Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the nose opens with blackberries, black cherries and crushed black plums with touches of spice box, lavender and cedar. Medium to full-bodied, it's rich, velvety and decadent in the mouth with a firm backbone and long, spicy finish. Yum! 2022 - 2042

Very deep crimson. Edgy and charred. A bit too exaggerated. Hard work! Shades of the 1990s…
Drink 2025-2038

Mid crimson. Finely ripe dark fruit, damson and dark plum but not at all raisined. Milk chocolate softness in texture, just enough freshness. Not very long but very approachable if not yet revealing its character. (JH) 14.5%
Drink 2022-2034

The 2015 Beau- Séjour-Bécot is a sensational powerhouse of a Saint-Emilion that does everything right. Mostly Merlot, with 20% Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, it’s a ripe, voluptuous effort loaded with notions of cassis, ripe plum, and black cherry fruit intermixed with incense, spring flowers, and damp earth. It has enough tannin to warrant short-term cellaring, but it’s still undeniably delicious today. It will drink nicely for two decades. This cuvee comes from 19.5-hectare vineyard sitting on the upper, limestone dominated plateau, from vines averaging 40 years in age, was harvest between October 5th to the 9th and was aged 17 months in 85% new French oak. 2018 - 2038

Sweet fruit the nose has depth the palate ripe fruit quite rich in the middle. There is a balancing freshness lighter at the back with sweet fruit coming through on the finish. 2022-35

This tastes less alcoholic than it is, partly because of the presence of Cabernet Franc and
Cabernet Sauvignon, but also because of the talent of winemaker, Juliette Bécot and the high
percentage of limestone in the vineyard. Rich, plush and textured, this has lovely tannins,
plenty of dark, bramble fruit and scented, coffee bean oak. Drink: 2024-32

The lovely nose, smothered in oak, still manages to look ravishing and this is very exciting. The fruit is dense and briary
with dark chocolate and throughout the experience it never lapses into parody or becomes too theatrical. I am very
confident that this will open out into a great wine one day and it will retain its detail and depth.