Saint-Julien · vintage 2007
Château Beychevelle 2007
Ageing potential20+ years
Why this vintage
- The 2007 vintage in Saint-JulienA cool, wet summer demanded strict selection: light, delicious wines, to be drunk young.
- Ageing potential20+ years
The 2007 vintage in Saint-Julien
Vintage benchmark: 83/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A cool, wet summer demanded strict selection: light, delicious wines, to be drunk young.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Julien. 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
The 2007 vintage seems to be a good surprise considering the difficulties we encountered throughout this campaign. We can hope for a level comparable to that of the 2004 vintage. The color is dark ruby, of good density, a harbinger of great maturity and richness. On the nose: fruity aromas dominate, burlat cherry, black fruits, blueberry. The woody notes are perceptible but not dominant. On the palate: freshness on the attack, notes of black fruits, cherry, the structure is elegant, the tannins are ripe, silky. This wine is very clean, straight but very pleasant without any harshness or austerity. The density is present, the balance and the flesh are present. The length on the palate increases and gives a long and tasty finish. ageing will bring even more and more complex olfactory and taste nuances and will make it ever more attractive. To drink in 201
Blend of the 2007 vintage
- 55 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 35 % Merlot
- 5 % Cabernet franc
- 5 % Petit verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2007 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 62 % cabernet sauvignon, 31 % merlot, 5 % cabernet franc, 2 % petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2007 sheet
- 14 % vol.Alcohol
- 53 hl/haYield
- 25 yrsVine age
Winemaking
The vats are filled and homogenized by pump-over and adjustments by saignée. Alcoholic fermentation in tanks is carried out with selected yeasts and lasts 21 to 28 days. ageing: 18 months in oak barrels, half renewed every year.
Ageing
18 months in oak barrels, renewed every year by half
Terroir
Château Beychevelle, the Versailles of the Médoc, could only produce a wine of excellence. An exceptional 90-hectare vineyard of deep Garonne gravel, a winegrowing tradition going back to the Middle Ages and painstaking work in selection and ageing bring the wine to its full expression. The blend is 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot.
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Texts and documents 2007
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.