A great wine rarely reveals itself through its intensity, but rather through its ability to immediately display depth and detail! Beau-Séjour Bécot perfectly embodies this. The bouquet displays a multitude of nuances with notes of cocoa beans (which have always been part of this wine's DNA) as well as hints of black berries and iris. On the palate, the wine asserts itself decisively. It certainly displays a breadth, even generosity, but not to overwhelm the palate, just to frame the saline notes and create harmony. As a result, the wine is invigorating, incisive, lively, yet also caressing. It's quite an art! Managing to focus these characterful elements so effectively and bring them together to create harmony can only be achieved by listening to the terroir, the vine, instinct, and, incidentally, perhaps even obviously, advice! This BSB is the result of an exemplary, destabilizing, and challenging journey that demanded fundamental, emotional, and deeply rooted questioning, leading us back to where wine is born: the vine. The wine's identity itself remains untouched, but the paths leading to it have! This is why various processes and working methods have been revisited. Not to revolutionize anything, but to return to the fundamentals while taking into account a contemporary envir(more...)

Beau-Sejour Becot has been on fire lately, and the 2025 shows why. Concentrated, lusciously textured, creamy, and fresh, the wine delivers an intensity of fruit and a surreal sense of purity that hits all your pleasure buttons. The finish is all about its nonstop, seamless layers of velvety fruit that coat your palate as they linger for over 60 seconds. The wine is aged in 50% new French oak barrels, along with foudres and amphora. The wine blends 78% Merlot with 22% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV, 3.5 pH. The harvest took place September 25 - October 4. Drink from 2030-2060. - 98 to 100 Points - Jeff Leve

The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot has all the requisites to take its place alongside the 2022 and the other extraordinary wines of 2025. Aromatic and layered, with striking presence, the 2025 is majestic. Deep, dark red fruit, pomegranate, mint, chalk, white pepper, rose petal and lavender soar from the glass. Bright saline notes drive through the mid-palate and into a finish marked by intense fruit and vibrant minerality. The purity here is just off the charts. Yields were 32 hectoliters per hectare. The 2025 saw a cold soak of 15 days followed by another 27 days or so on the skins, on the longer side for Bordeaux. Blending is done before the wines see oak. There are good wines, exceptional wines, and then emotional wines. Beau-Séjour Bécot falls into the third category. Unforgettable. Tasted two times. - 98 to 100 Points - Antonio Galloni

Sporting a stunning deep purple hue, the 2025 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot reveals cassis, graphite, liquid violets, and black raspberry on the nose, with a liquid rock-like minerality that speaks to this brilliant terroir. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, has ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish. It brings remarkable richness, polish, and depth alongside that classic sense of purity and minerality that this château consistently delivers today. - 97 to 99 Points - Jeb Dunnuck

The 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot continues this estate's brilliant run of vintages with what will surely number among their finest to date. A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, this compelling wine opens in the glass with a pure and incipiently complex bouquet of dark berries and plums mingled with floral accents of iris and lilac. Medium- to full-bodied, deep and layered, with a concentrated core of fruit, sweet tannin and a bright spine of animating acidity, it concludes with a long, mineral finish. Beau-Séjour Bécot's limestone terroir is front and center in the glass. - 97 to 99 Points -William Kelley