Château Beau-Séjour-Bécot 2025
St-Emilion 1er Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£270.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.5% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2032 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2055 |
| Grapes: 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc | |
Critic scores
97-99 RP, 94-96 NM, 98-100 AG, 97-98 JS, 97-99 JD, 96-98 LPB, 96 DC, 98-100 JL, 96-98 DB, 98-100 YB, 98 GM
Critic reviews
"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."
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot was picked from September 5 to 12 for the Merlot and September 17 and 18 for the Cabernet Franc, which represents 20% of the blend due to new plantings that are reorientated north-south instead of east-west. Proprietor Juliette Bécot told me that yields were 32 hl/ha, mainly due to the initiation florale; they conducted a long 15-day cold maceration and used 50% new barrels, 37% foudres and the remainder in used barrel and amphora, malo done in vat. The nose takes a few minutes to open in the glass. 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 that could almost be described as "rocky". 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. 13.4% alcohol."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot has all the requisites to take its place alongside the 2022 and the other extraordinary wines of 2025. Aromatic and layered, with striking presence, the 2025 is majestic. Deep, dark red fruit, pomegranate, mint, chalk, white pepper, rose petal and lavender soar from the glass. Bright saline notes drive through the mid-palate and into a finish marked by intense fruit and vibrant minerality. The purity here is just off the charts. Yields were 32 hectoliters per hectare. The 2025 saw a cold soak of 15 days followed by another 27 days or so on the skins, on the longer side for Bordeaux. Blending is done before the wines see oak. There are good wines, exceptional wines, and then emotional wines. Beau-Séjour Bécot falls into the third category. Unforgettable. Tasted two times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"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."
James Suckling, April 2026, JamesSuckling.com
"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."
Jeb Dunnuck, May 2026, JebDunnuck.com
"Clear depth, sinew and crunchy cranberry, blueberry and red cherry fruit, with tension, minerality, salinity, a ton of juice and mouthwatering freshness on the finish, sea spray, saffron and tobacco leaf, curls of woodsmoke and iris flowers as it opens. Great stuff, with precision and possibility, and the DNA of the location. 16ha in production out of 22ha potential, cold soak for 15C at 6 days, 32 hl/ha. 3.4 pH. 55% new oak. Harvest September 5 to 18. Thomas Duclos consultant."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"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."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Émilion; 80% Merlot; 20% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 32 hl/ha; pH 3.40; 13.5% alcohol; Thomas Duclos is the consultant here). Gorgeous. A little closed aromatically at first, rendering this intimate in personality. It draws you in, however, but you have to come to it. It really rewards that. Floral, with delicate lilac and peony blossoms that are easier to find by virtue of that initial slight closure. Cedar and black cherry, a little blueberry, with graphite flooding through with aeration. A touch of rose water too. Brilliantly fresh and a wine that really signals the absence of excessive stress on this wonderful limestone plateau terroir. Exuberant in the mouth, with a bright and crunchy fruit, refreshing and joyous. This is ample in frame and gently structured by the lovely powdery chalky tannins that are another signature of the terroir. Cool at the core with an almost mirror-pool clarity. Hyper-cystalline and luminous, but also vivid and vibrant, almost vibrating on the finish. The Merlot sets the frame for the Cabernet Franc to dance, to swirl bringing all its freshness. Accessible, yes, but with colossal aging potential."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
William Kelley, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot was picked from September 5 to 12 for the Merlot and September 17 and 18 for the Cabernet Franc, which represents 20% of the blend due to new plantings that are reorientated north-south instead of east-west. Proprietor Juliette Bécot told me that yields were 32 hl/ha, mainly due to the initiation florale; they conducted a long 15-day cold maceration and used 50% new barrels, 37% foudres and the remainder in used barrel and amphora, malo done in vat. The nose takes a few minutes to open in the glass. 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 that could almost be described as "rocky". 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. 13.4% alcohol."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot has all the requisites to take its place alongside the 2022 and the other extraordinary wines of 2025. Aromatic and layered, with striking presence, the 2025 is majestic. Deep, dark red fruit, pomegranate, mint, chalk, white pepper, rose petal and lavender soar from the glass. Bright saline notes drive through the mid-palate and into a finish marked by intense fruit and vibrant minerality. The purity here is just off the charts. Yields were 32 hectoliters per hectare. The 2025 saw a cold soak of 15 days followed by another 27 days or so on the skins, on the longer side for Bordeaux. Blending is done before the wines see oak. There are good wines, exceptional wines, and then emotional wines. Beau-Séjour Bécot falls into the third category. Unforgettable. Tasted two times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"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."
James Suckling, April 2026, JamesSuckling.com
"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."
Jeb Dunnuck, May 2026, JebDunnuck.com
"Clear depth, sinew and crunchy cranberry, blueberry and red cherry fruit, with tension, minerality, salinity, a ton of juice and mouthwatering freshness on the finish, sea spray, saffron and tobacco leaf, curls of woodsmoke and iris flowers as it opens. Great stuff, with precision and possibility, and the DNA of the location. 16ha in production out of 22ha potential, cold soak for 15C at 6 days, 32 hl/ha. 3.4 pH. 55% new oak. Harvest September 5 to 18. Thomas Duclos consultant."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"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."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Saint-Émilion; 80% Merlot; 20% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 32 hl/ha; pH 3.40; 13.5% alcohol; Thomas Duclos is the consultant here). Gorgeous. A little closed aromatically at first, rendering this intimate in personality. It draws you in, however, but you have to come to it. It really rewards that. Floral, with delicate lilac and peony blossoms that are easier to find by virtue of that initial slight closure. Cedar and black cherry, a little blueberry, with graphite flooding through with aeration. A touch of rose water too. Brilliantly fresh and a wine that really signals the absence of excessive stress on this wonderful limestone plateau terroir. Exuberant in the mouth, with a bright and crunchy fruit, refreshing and joyous. This is ample in frame and gently structured by the lovely powdery chalky tannins that are another signature of the terroir. Cool at the core with an almost mirror-pool clarity. Hyper-cystalline and luminous, but also vivid and vibrant, almost vibrating on the finish. The Merlot sets the frame for the Cabernet Franc to dance, to swirl bringing all its freshness. Accessible, yes, but with colossal aging potential."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com