2000 Beausejour Becot
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Showing beautifully, the 2000 Château Beau-Sejour Bécot is fully in its prime drink window and offers brilliant aromatics of red and black fruits, cedar pencil, tobacco leaf, truffle, and licorice. Full-bodied on the palate, it has a deep, concentrated mid-palate, resolved tannins, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. This is prime, Grade-A Saint-Emilion magic that's drinking at point yet has another 10-15 years of life.
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The 2000 Beau-Séjour Bécot was picked between 20 September and 3 October. Like many millennial wines there is impressive concentration on the nose but there is something just a bit aloof and charmless, unlike the 1998. The palate is medium-bodied with good body, rustic red fruit infused with tobacco, dried herbs and a touch of black pepper and rosemary towards the finish. There is gutsiness imbued in this 2000 but it just needs more refinement and sophistication. Tasted at the château.
This full-bodied, modern-styled St.-Emilion offers a sensational perfume of smoky barbecue, jammy black currants, kirsch, licorice, and a touch of pain grille. Fleshy, savory, and full-bodied, it has shed much of its tannin, but still possesses abundant structure. It is an intense, modern-styled, mouthfilling, sumptuous, attention-getting wine to drink over the next decade.