Château Beau-Sejour-Becot Premier Grand Cru Classe B St. Emilion 2005

Flaschenbewertung Juni 2015:
"A beautiful wine from Beau-Sejour Becot, the color of the 2005 is an opaque purple and the wine is loaded with notes of cedar wood, Asian spice, blackberry and cassis fruit. Full-bodied and tannic, but broad, huge, and massive, this wine is still an infant and needs another 7-10 years of cellaring. This is a 40- to 50-year wine from the Becot family.94+/100 Punkte - Trinkreife: 2025 - 2075

Robert Parker [WineAdvocate #164]:

While there was some variation with this wine on the three separate occasions I tasted it, it is unquestionably a spectacular effort as well as one of the finest Beau Sejour-Becots made by proprietor Gerard Becot. The natural alcohol came in just under 15%, and the blend of 70% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc, and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon was cropped at 35 hectoliters per hectare. Despite the wine's massiveness, intensity, and powerful, full-bodied flavors that coat the palate, there is remarkable freshness, definition, and lightness because of the vintage's unusual combination of huge richness, incredible tannin levels, record breaking alcohol levels, and very good acids. This should turn out to be a profound St.-Emilion and may merit a score in the mid-nineties if everything goes as well as I suspect it should. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2028.

92-95 Punkte

Rene Gabriel [WeinWisser #05/2006]:

Sattes Rubin-Lila. Parfürmiertes Waldbeerenbouquet, kräftig und recht tiefgründig. Kompakter, feiner, aber doch charaktervoller Gaumen, noble Adstringenz mit gut stützenden Tanninen, blaubeerige Aromatik, viel versprechendes Potential.

18/20 Punkte – Trinken: 2012-2028