2024 Beau-Site
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Cabernet Sauvignon dominant, opens with a wave of blackcurrant fruit, leafy but fragrant. This is consistent wine that I recommend highly in almost every vintage - but it struggles in 2024 with overly-austere tannins. 38% new oak. Harvest 2 September to October 8.
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
Colin Hay, The Drinks Business
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Cigar box, currants, and a touch of spice are at work in the nose, and on the forward, fruity, medium-bodied palate. This is going to be delicious on release. The wine blends 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, and 4% Cabernet Franc.
The 2024 Beau-Site has a lively, well-defined bouquet with brambly red fruit and veins of ripe blue fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins that frame the graphite-infused black fruit tones, though it just pulls up short on the finish. Give this a couple of years in bottle.
A refined and polished wine with blueberry, blackcurrant and nutmeg character throughout. This has medium body, firm and fine tannins and a fresh finish. Linear and polished. A blend of 70% cabernet sauvignon, 22% merlot, 4% cabernet franc and 4% petit verdot.