Château Beau-Séjour Bécot 2024

The 2024 vintage in Saint-Émilion

Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early.

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.

Tasting

""A majestic, opulent nose that envelops the nostrils, asserting itself gently with black and purple fruits spilling out of the glass. On the palate, the perfectly ripe fruit is juicy and succulent, with notes of blackberry and black plum, before a sappy, spicy finish."" - le Figaro

Blend of the 2024 vintage

Figures from the 2024 sheet

• 13 % vol.Alcohol
• 46 hl/haYield
• 32 yrsVine age
• 56,000 bottlesProduction

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.

Ageing

16 months, 65% in new barrels, 35% in ageing vats, amphoras and 20 hl oak casks.

Terroir

The estate covers 15.92 ha and produces around 56,000 bottles a year. The soil is particularly suited to producing a wine of very high quality. It is characterised by a high concentration of clay-limestone with starfish fossils (calcaire à astéries) and is also hollowed out by galleries where the wines are stored. The vineyard is planted 70% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, with vines averaging 40 years of age. Yields range between 30 and 38 hl/ha.