Château Beau-Séjour Bécot 2025

The 2025 vintage in Saint-Émilion

Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness.

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

"Deep and generous, with an extraordinary promise of sappy, juicy fruit. Very fine oak gives it nobility. The palate is fantastic, highly defined, with fresh, natural, bucolic red fruit – wild strawberries. Succulent, silky, smooth, mouthwatering, with chalky tannins. A smiling wine, a cuddly wine, made for today's palate." - le Figaro

Blend of the 2025 vintage

Figures from the 2025 sheet

• 13.5 % vol.Alcohol
• 32 hl/haYield
• 29 yrsVine age

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 35 days.

Gentle, slow extraction in infusion mode.

Maceration protected from air (and oxidation) with the cap fully submerged.

Ageing

55% in new barrels, 4% in one-wine barrels, 4% in amphoras and 37% in 20 hl oak casks.

Terroir

The estate covers 15.50 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.