2019 Beau Séjour Bécot

Beau-Séjour Bécot is one of the rising star of the Saint-Emilion plateau . Since 2017, with Juliette Becot (re)taking over the property management, along with her husband Julien, BSB experienced a turning point . Indeed, Juliette came as a breath of fresh air, willing to redefine the style: more freshness and easier to drink young, with pleasure – while keeping its richness and structure. In order to achieve this new level of refinement they decided to work with Thomas Duclos. About the 2019 vintage : Each vintage is unique. Making this statement isn’t resorting to an easy cliché, particularly as nowadays vignerons have honed their savoir-faire so precisely that disparities between one harvest and another are constantly narrowing. The 2019 vintage couldn’t be likened to the ones of the last several years. It was one of sharp contrasts, as evidenced in the shortening of the Merlot vine cycle, while that of the Cabernets didn’t appear to have evolved. The grapes produced by our vineyard were the fruit of the vines’ fight, from the beginning of spring until the end of summer, against the excesses of the climate. This outstanding, exciting vintage was full of surprises and unprecedented episodes. At Beau-Séjour Bécot, the harvest was later than in 2018. Despite the vagaries of the climate, the grapes were healthy and ripe, and the quality of the 2019 vintage was stunning.