Château Beau-Séjour Bécot 2025 is an exceptional Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé that beautifully showcases the purity and elegance of its renowned limestone terroir. Crafted from 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, this refined Bordeaux reveals expressive aromas of dark berries, plums, iris, and lilac, layered with subtle mineral and saline notes. Silky, vibrant, and beautifully balanced, Château Beau-Séjour Bécot 2025 combines ripe fruit, fine tannins, and fresh acidity with a long, precise finish. A sophisticated and age-worthy vintage, it captures the estate’s signature style of elegance, freshness, and remarkable terroir expression.

The Wine Advocate | RP 97-99
Published: Apr 30, 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.

Beau-Séjour Bécot experienced some hydric stress in 2025 but, thanks to their clay-limestone terroir, not enough to block veraison, which was early and uninterrupted. Harvest began on September 5 for the Merlot, finishing on September 12, with Cabernet Franc picked on September 17 and 18—the earliest in the estate's recorded history. Berries were small, without any swelling despite late-season rain, and the resulting wine is a very classically proportioned 13.5% alcohol at a pH of 3.4. This is worth a special effort to seek out.

James Suckling | JS 97-98
Published: Apr 29, 2026

A medium-bodied red with a very salty and bright character and a lovely, silky texture. It’s round, polished and intense. Superb finish of mineral and iron undertones. Racy and refined. A unique wine with a texture like a great Burgundy. 80% merlot and 20% cabernet franc.

Decanter | D 96
Published: Apr 1, 2026
Drink: 2032-2048

An ethereal wine from Beau-Séjour Bécot this year. Fragrant blackcurrants and black cherries. High energy from the get go, this has such verve and focus from the start with a zing in the mouth; juicy, succulent, gorgeous and friendly. Generous in terms of sweet, juicy acidity, mouthwatering but soft and creamy so you get a wide mouthfeel. Tannins perfectly placed, nicely supportive but not intrusive. Layers of fresh red fruits, a little touch of salinity on the finish, crunchy cranberries with a soft lick of salt wet stones. I love the precision – the real tension but not at all too tart or austere. There’s such a soft element that makes this really approachable. Very purity, pristine and clear – a real sensation of the limestone. 3.40pH. A yield of 32hlha. Ageing 37% oak casks.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Medium
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 20% Cabernet Franc 80% Merlot

Jancis Robinson | JR 17
Published: Apr 23, 2026
Drink: 2032-2050

80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc. Cask sample.
Bright and lifted with red-fruit notes and plenty of tension thanks to the chalky soils. Juicy, long and structured with plenty of drive. Finely honed tannins with a saline note on the finish. (JL)