2025 Château Beau-Sejour-Becot

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. 
- Antonio Galloni (04/2026)

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 Beau-Séjour Bécot springs from the glass with vivacious notes of fresh blackberries, ripe black plums, and red currant preserves, giving way to nuances of rose bud tea, lavender, pencil lead, and iron ore, with a waft of mossy tree bark. The medium-bodied palate is wonderfully energetic with great tension from crisp acidity and tightly wound black and red berry layers, supported by very fine-grained tannins, finishing long and chalky. The blend is 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. The alcohol is 13.5% and the pH is 3.4. 
- Lisa Perrotti-Brown (04/2026) 

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. 
- William Kelley (04/2026)