CHÂTEAU BEYCHEVELLE
2023 4ème Cru Classé Saint Julien
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Bordeaux |
| Sub-district | Haut Médoc |
| Village | Saint Julien |
| Classification | 4ème Cru Classé |
| ABV | 13% |
Tasting just a few months on from En Primeur, this has a kick of white pepper and capsicum spice, excellent freshness and balance with elongated tannins and a kick of smoky black tea and liqourice root. Good stuff, 60% new oak for ageing. Drinking range: 2029 - 2044 Rating: 94 Jane Anson, Decanter (Jun 2024)
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Plummy red fruits, fresh acidities, sculpted tannic architure, this has balance and finesse, white pepper, capsicum spice, black tea, cigar box, liqourice root, rose petals, fine tannins, St Julien balance with a kick of smoked oak on the finish. Drinking range: 2029 - 2044 Rating: 94 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (May 2024)
The 2023 Beychevelle is fabulous. As always, Beychevelle includes quite a bit more Merlot than most wines in the appellation, but the Cabernet is especially high here. Inky dark fruit, crème de cassis, mocha, licorice and lavender build in the glass. This juicy, extroverted Saint-Julien has a ton to offer. The combination of fruit intensity, acid and supporting structure is superb. The 2023 is showy, but not at all overdone. Beychevelle remains one of the most distinctive wines in all of Bordeaux. It is especially classy in this edition. Tasted two times. Drinking range: 2033 - 2063 Rating: 94-96 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (May 2024)
The 2023 from Beychevelle offers some appealing fruit on the nose, with creamed summer berries, vanilla and a little raspberry leaf freshness. The palate follows with a modestly textured substance, fresh and bright, medium-bodied, with a rather loosely composed midpalate, with firm but nicely melded tannins. A gentle texture here, with juicy fruit, laid over a firm structure, this leads into a sappy and tannin-rich finish. Rather fresh and bright, with good grip, I could see this developing well. Tasted twice. Rating: 91-93 Chris Kissack, www.thewinedoctor.com (Apr 2024)
Château Beychevelle
St Julien Quatrième cru 1855 Jean-Louis Nogaret de la Valette, the first Duke of Epernon, was a powerful man. He was an Admiral and the Governor of Guyenne under King Henri III and in deference to him, so it is said, ships passing his estate on the River Gironde would dip their sails - this "baisse-voile" (or "bacha velo" in the local Gascon tongue) became "Beychevelle", and accounts for the presence of a rather fanciful ship on the label. The griffon at the prow of said ship echos the griffon in Greek mythology who guarded Dionysus's wine goblet. The fine château was built in the 18th Century, extended in the 19th, and has recently been restored. The vineyards are 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot with a little each of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Wines are aged in wood for 18 months, with 50% of the barriques being new each year.
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2006 CHÂTEAU LÉOVILLE POYFERRÉ 2ème Cru Classé Saint Julien
Bordeaux France 13% Red
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Rich, finest silk texture, fresh expression - a deep velvetiness of cassis. Very pure and precise. Racy and exciting. A more severe style than the 2004, but more serious too, with longer ageing potential. Very classic wh...(read more)
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