2018 Chateau Beausejour Becot Petit Becot
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The 2018 Beau-Sejour Becot has a deep garnet purple color. It starts off with vanilla and chocolate notes, with a core of boysenberry preserves and baked plums, plus wafts of redcurrant jelly, roses, and wild sage. Full-bodied, the palate is firm and grainy, with just enough freshness and a perfumed finish.
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James Suckling
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, The Wine Independent
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Tasted blind. Real zest to this wine, but a pretty drying finish. Just not quite enough fruit in the middle. A bit sour. Shame! (JR)
The first vintage to be entirely overseen by Juliet Bécot, ann the sculpting of style that she has introduced can be seen here. A mix of amphorae, 20hl Stockinger casks and 225l barrels used for the ageing
The 2018 Beau-Séjour Bécot has really closed down since I tasted it en primeur. Inky red/purplish fruit, lavender, rose petal, mint and blood orange gradually open in the glass, all framed by veins of chalky minerality. The 2018 is a fabulous wine in the making, but readers have to be patient. Time in a decanter or simply in the glass helps to bring out the wine's considerable depth.