The 2020 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: An early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Blend of the 2020 vintage
- 85 % Merlot
- 13 % Cabernet franc
- 2 % Cabernet sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2020 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 80 % merlot, 20 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2020 sheet
- 14.5 % vol.Alcohol
- 42 hl/haYield
- 33 yrsVine age
- 84,000 bottlesProduction
Label
Winemaking
Plot-by-plot selection.
Destemming, manual sorting, vatting at controlled temperature.
Traditional alcoholic fermentation (in 70 hl inverted truncated-cone vats).
Vatting time averages 28 days.
Gentle, slow extraction in infusion mode.
Maceration protected from air (and oxidation) with the cap fully submerged.
Blending in December 2020.
Ageing
16 months, 65% in new barrels, 35% in ageing vats, amphoras and 20 hl oak casks.
Terroir
On the western plateau of Saint-Emilion, on the former parish of Saint-Martin de Mazerat. Clay-limestone soils. Planting density: 7,200 vines/ha.
An offer on Château Beau-Séjour Bécot 2020
Availability, allocations and terms: the Compagnie Médocaine will reply promptly. The estate and vintage are already filled in in the message.
Texts and documents 2020
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Visuals
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