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Just Announced: Wine Spectator's #5 Top 100 for 2025
Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot 2022 St Emilion
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100 Points - Vinous:
"A total stunner. What a wine! The aromatics alone are mesmerizing. I have never tasted a Beau-Séjour Bécot like this."
99 Points - Jeff leve, The Wine Cellar Insider:
"Incredibly dense, sensuous, opulent and deep. Yet, with all the concentration, the wine is weightless, and effortless to drink. The purity in the fruit, the energy, length, balance, and complexity is at a new level here. The seamless finish. Make no mistake, this is the best wine ever produced at Beau-Sejour Becot."
98 Points - Jeb Dunnuck:
"Tasted on multiple occasions, the 2022 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot is flat-out sensational, as well as the finest wine I’ve tasted from this château."
97 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"This is a Saint-Émilion of breathtaking perfume and harmony that will be worth a special effort to seek out."
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Dear Artisans,
Juliette Bécot’s wine career began in 2001 working alongside her father, Gérard, who had made the wines since 1967. When he retired in 2015, Juliette wanted to honor his legacy by having Beau-Séjour Bécot considered among St.-Emilion’s elite. She revamped the winemaking, focusing on freshness, detail and precision. She and her husband, Julien Barthe, oversaw the construction of a new cellar, including new vinification tanks and a range of aging vessels, from barrels to foudres to clay amphorae. Much of the estate’s 54 acres of vines underwent replanting as well. Consulting winemaker Thomas Duclos joined in 2017, technical director Jean de Cournuaud in 2018. This estate is now among those leading the appellation, as you can see from the reviews this wine has received:
Vinous Media, a notoriously 'tough grader': 100 Points
Jeb Dunnuck, almost as strict: 98 Points
Wine Spectator: 96 Points and Rank #5 for Top 100 Wines of 2025
We could only get 36 bottles which will be gone before dinner's over, so please act quickly! Don't wake up to find this "dreamy wine" has passed you by!
Cheers,
—James Tran
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2022 Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot St Emilion | |
100 Points - Vinous:
"The 2022 Beau-Séjour Bécot is a total stunner. What a wine! The 2022 was magnificent en primeur, and it is all that from bottle. The aromatics alone are mesmerizing. Crushed rose petal, mint, blood orange, new leather and cedar meld into a core of pliant red-toned fruit. More than anything else, I am so impressed with the wine's precision and finesse. I have never tasted a Beau-Séjour Bécot like this. (Drink between 2030-2062) - Antonio Galloni (Jan 2025)
99 Points - Jeff leve, The Wine Cellar Insider:
"The bouquet of red and purple flowers stands out in the nose before you get to the sweet, red, black and blue fruits, licorice and spice. On the palate the wine is incredibly dense, sensuous, opulent and deep. Yet, with all the concentration, the wine is weightless, and effortless to drink. On the mid-palate, the waves of fruits keep coming as they coat your palate. The purity in the fruit, the energy, length, balance, and complexity is at a new level here. The seamless finish, with its ocean of berries, topped by a salty, crushed stones hits the 60 second mark. The best part of the experience is the velvet-drenched-texture that needs to be experienced. The wine blends 76% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.5%, ABV, 3.55 pH. The harvest took place, September 5 - September 26. Yields were 33 hectoliters per hectare. Make no mistake, this is the best wine ever produced at Beau-Sejour Becot. Drink from 2027-2060." (May 2023)
98 Points - Jeb Dunnuck:
"Tasted on multiple occasions, the 2022 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot is flat-out sensational, as well as the finest wine I’ve tasted from this château. Powerful aromatics of red, blue, and black fruits as well as crushed stone and violets define the aromatics, and it’s full-bodied, incredibly concentrated, has integrated acidity, and ultra-fine tannins. Based on 76% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon, this heavenly Saint-Emilion will benefit from just 3-5 years of bottle age and have 30 years or more of overall longevity. Back up the truck. (Drink between 2025-2055)" (Feb 2025)
97 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"The 2022 Beau-Séjour Bécot has turned out brilliantly in bottle. Wafting from the glass with a complex bouquet of sweet wild berries mingled with rose petals, orange zest, violets, gentian and espresso roast, it's full-bodied, supple and suave, with a deep core of cool, layered fruit, beautifully vibrant flavors and polished structuring tannins, concluding with a saline finish. As I wrote when I tasted it from barrel, this is a Saint-Émilion of breathtaking perfume and harmony that will be worth a special effort to seek out. 2027-2055." - William Kelley (Mar 2025)
96 Points & Rank #5 Top 100 for '25 - Wine Spectator:
"This is very fresh, expressive and focused, with violet, iris and rosehip notes darting to the fore, while flavors of sleek raspberry and red currant preserves race along behind. Almost flattering, but there's a subtle chalky tension piercing the finish, which sails through. A dreamy wine. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Best from 2026 through 2040. 6,250 cases made, 1,600 cases imported." - JM (Mar 2025)
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2019 Cheval Blanc, Saint Emilion
Right Bank
12 x 375 mL bottles available now
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Cheval Blanc is one of the great names of Bordeaux and the most famous Chateau in Saint Emilion. This wine scored an incredible 100 points FOUR TIMES with this vintage!
100 Points - Robert Parker's WA:
"One of the unequivocally great wines of the vintage is the 2019 Cheval Blanc, a stunning young Saint-Émilion that wafts from the glass with aromas of wild berries and plums mingled with notions of lilac, pipe tobacco, violets, raw cocoa, licorice, crushed mint and burning embers. Full-bodied, layered and enveloping, it's deep and intense, with beautifully rich, powdery tannins and vibrant flavors. Concluding with a long, saline finish, this rivals the 2016 as the finest Cheval Blanc of the decade, and in many respects it might be thought of as the latter vintage's sun-kissed cousin. Bravo to Pierre-Olivier Clouet and his team!" - William Kelley (Apr 2022)
100 Points - Vinous:
"The 2019 Cheval Blanc is a stunning, riveting wine. There is simply nothing like a great Cheval in all of Bordeaux. Soaring aromatics are immediately alluring. Bright red-toned fruit, blood orange, cinnamon, espresso and dried herbs build in a Cheval that possesses tremendous layers and exceptional balance. Clean, mineral notes lend tension and drive. The 2019 is a bit strict today and not ready to show all its cards, but it is very clearly a special, special wine in the making. In 2019, the Grand Vin represents 82.5% of the estate's production, a very high amount by any measure. I wouldn't dream of touching a bottle anytime soon. The 2019 is an eternal Cheval Blanc." - Antonio Galloni (Feb 2022)
100 Points - James Suckling:
" Blackcurrants, cassis, graphite and earth on the nose, then changing to roses, violets and berries. Full-bodied with incredible energy of fine tannins and lively acidity. It grows on the palate and escalates to the summit of perfect wine. Very powerful at the end. Holding back and a great finish. Quantity and quality. Menthol. Cool. One of the greatest young Cheval Blancs I have ever tasted. 58% merlot, 34% cabernet franc and 8% cabernet sauvignon. Great finish. Give it time. Try after 2028." (Feb 2022)
100 Points - The Wine Independent:
"The 2019 Cheval Blanc is a blend of 58% Merlot, 34% Cabernet Franc, and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon. 41 out of 53 blocks have had a part to play this year, representing 10 different soil types. The Grand Vin in 2019 represents 82% of production. Deep purple-black in color, it needs a lot of swirling to shake loose fragrant scents of Indian spice, potpourri, star anise, and cardamom, over a core of preserved plums, boysenberries, and charcoal with touches of wood smoke and cracked black pepper. Full-bodied, rich and immediately impactful in the mouth, the layered nuances slowly expand, beautifully framed by ripe, rounded tannins and seamless freshness, finishing with cascading savory and earth flavors and lots of lingering mineral notes." -Lisa Perrotti-Brown (5/9/22)
Our Prices:
$499.99 btl (375 mL)
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2019 Tetre-Roteboeuf, Saint Emilion
Right Bank
2 Bottles left
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97 Points - Robert Parker's WA:
"The 2019 Le Tertre Roteboeuf is a terrific success from the Mitjaville family. This amphitheatrical vineyard on the clay-limestone slopes of Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, planted with low, cordon-trained vines, has delivered a striking wine that wafts from the glass with aromas of cassis, blackberries and cherries mingled with notions of violets, cigar box, sweet spices and loamy soil. Full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with a deep core of fruit, velvety tannins and lively acids, it will richly reward a decade and more of bottle age. Interestingly, proprietor François Mitjaville contended that 2019's distribution of rainfall had tended to invert the usual stylistic distinction between Tertre Roteboeuf and Roc de Cambes, his wine from the Côtes de Bourg; yet, on the day of our tasting, geology trumped weather, because as usual the former was more sensual, the latter blockier and more structured." - William Kelly (April 2022)
97-95 Points - Jeb Dunnuck
97 Points - The Wine Independent
96 Points - Vinous
Our Price:
$279.97 btl (750 mL)
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2019 Haut-Bailly, Pessac-Leognan
Left Bank
46 x 375 mL bottles &
1 x 1.5 L magnum available
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99 Points #2 Top 100 of 2022 - James Suckling:
"Extremely aromatic, with incredible wet-earth, bark, stone and graphite notes on the nose, then changing to violets, blackberries and blackcurrants. Full-bodied, yet so linear and fine, with titanium tannins that go on so long. Builds and builds then just rolls around the palate through the endless finish. Real Bordeaux here. 56% cabernet sauvignon, 36% merlot, 4% cabernet franc, and 4% petit verdot. Exceptional. Better after 2029." (Dec 2022)
97 Points - Vinous
97 Points - Decanter
Our Prices:
$99.97 btl (375 mL)
$289.97 btl (1.5 L Mag)
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