Château Beau-Séjour

Deep, dark ruby-garnet, opaque centre, violet highlights, a delicate lightening at the rim. Leather and black cherry, woodruff, robust new oak. The palate reveals very fine tannins, carefully extracted even in terms of quantity; the supple body complements the robust limestone minerality and the tannin structure, which releases its tension relatively quickly as the wine develops on the palate. Well-integrated acidity. (U.S.)

The intensity, length, and purity are impossible to ignore this year. The wine offers strong floral characteristics coupled with sweet, ripe red cherries, licorice, black raspberries, and a hint of cocoa. It is silky, elegant, long, and refined. The fruit is incredibly soft, pure, and mineral-driven, providing touches of salt and spice that enhance the wine's sapidity. wine is aged in 50% new, French oak barrels, along with foudres, and amphora. The wine blends 78% Merlot, with 22% Cabernet Franc. 13%, ABV, 3.5 pH. The harvest took place, September 25 - October 4. Drink from 2029-2052.