I keep saying it again and again and can’t stress it enough—the folks at Beau-Séjour Bécot are making some of the finest wines in Bordeaux today, and it’s time they’re taken seriously. All it takes is a sip of this brilliant 2020 to prove the point. While we’ve enjoyed many charming vintages over the years—and can’t deny the remarkable terroir in the heart of Saint-Émilion’s limestone plateau—what Julien and Juliette have accomplished in recent years is nothing short of astonishing. Gorgeous, perfumed aromatics lead the way, but the palate steals the show, delivering juicy black fruits, an absolutely seamless texture, incredibly fine tannins, a hint of salinity, and a long, driven finish. It’s elegant yet full of flavor, one of those wines that begs for another sip. I can’t wait to see how this ages, but even now it feels like a masterpiece—a brilliant tribute to what’s been happening at this address in recent years. A stunning Bordeaux of refinement and complexity from one of the Right Bank’s great vintages, it’s a wine I can’t recommend highly enough.

Very pretty and elegant nose with a really nice and dense layer of black and red fruit, with just a little touch of green peppercorn in the very back accompanied by a little bit of leather and tar. The palate is rich and deep, with a good amount of oak spice and influence, the fruit is ripe and rich with blackberry and blackberry at the forefront. The lingering finish has a good level of earth and also more of that toasty barrel spice, something that will calm down a little bit with some age, but doesn't impact the end user experience right now at all. The tannin is really elegant and refined already, and while I might consider laying this down for another 5-10 years, with the right food this would absolutely work tonight assuming I could give the wine a heavy decant.