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2005 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot
Ready, but will keep
Jeb Dunnuck
96/100
Robert Parker
94+/100
Product: 20058109815
2005 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2005
Alcohol % 14
Maturity Ready, but will keep
Grape List Merlot
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Beau-Séjour Bécot

Critics reviews

Jeb Dunnuck 96/100
A blend of 70% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2005 Beau-Sejour-Becot is another terrific 2005 that’s still young yet offers plenty of pleasure. Crème de cassis, graphite and chocolate characteristics emerge from this broad, fabulously pure, concentrated beauty. It’s just at the early stages of its drinking plateau and has another 2-3 decades of primes drinking ahead of it. Bravo!jeb_dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (August 2018)
Drink 2005 - 2035
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (Aug 2018)
Robert Parker 94+/100
A beautiful wine from Beau-Sjour Bcot, the color of the 2005 is an opaque purple and the wine is loaded with notes of cedar wood, Asian spice, blackberry and cassis fruit. Full-bodied and tannic, but broad, huge, and massive, this wine is still an infant and needs another 7-10 years of cellaring. This is a 40- to 50-year wine from the Bcot family.Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 29/06/2015
Drink 2005 - 2035
Robert Parker, RobertParker.com (Jun 2015)

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Château Beau-Séjour Bécot

Château Beau-Séjour Bécot has experienced some dramatic ups and downs in recent decades: it was classified a Premier Grand Cru Classé B in 1955, demoted in 1986 and promoted once again, as a Premier Grand Cru Classé B, in 1996.
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