1998 Beau-Sejour-Becot Bordeaux Blend

Bordeaux Blend - 750ML
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JL 98 WA 91
JL 98

TheWineCellarInsider.com, December 2023

Fully-mature and still going strong, the wine is soft, supple, creamy and effortlessly shows off its salty, chocolate-covered cherries, and red plums with ease in the perfume, and on the palate. This has developed well...
WA 91

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, April 2001

...flamboyant obvious new oak but unlike other years there is more concentration power and depth behind the vanillin/pain grille notes. Full-bodied dense and chewy with copious peppery herb-tinged red currant black...

WINE DETAILS

Color & Type Red
Varietal Bordeaux Blend
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub-region Saint Emilion
Vintage 1998
Size 750ML

The Beau-Sejour Becot vineyard is situated on the western plateau of Saint-Emilion, in the old parish of Saint-Martin de Mazerat. The estate covers 18.5 hectares of which 16.52 hectares are planted with Merlot (70%), Cabernet Franc (24%), and Cabernet Sauvignon (6%) on chalky soil with fossilized starfish. The average age of the vines is 40 years old and the fruit is harvested by hand.

This wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in 80-100% new barrels depending on the vintage. It then ages in the cellar for 16 to 18 months at constant temperature of 16 degrees Celsius. Annual production is approximately 60,000 bottles.