Château Beauséjour 2022

The striking perfume, with its blast of flowers, dark cherries, plums, black raspberries, espresso, and sea salt, demands your attention. The palate seeks recognition for its non-stop waves of ripe, sweet, sensuously textured, dark, red pit fruits. The elegant finish, with its accents of spice, licorice, black cherry liqueur, mint, and oyster shells, crosses the 50-second mark with ease. The wine blends 69% Merlot with 31% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2028-2060.

A curl of woodsmoke and cedar aromatics, peony and crushed roses, fleshy black fruits, rose petals; I love the switch between opulent silk texture and pumice-stone tannic grip—this is exceptionally good. Josephine Duffau Lagrosse’s first vintage from beginning to end. A low 3.4 pH, reflecting the limestone soils; bottling two months later than usual because of new cellar construction, so 18 months in barrel, 70% new oak, the rest in one-year-old oak. Consultants Axel Marchal and Julien Viaud. A potential 100 points during En Primeur, living up to the billing.

A noble, refined nose, quivering with impatience like a thoroughbred trembling before the race. A complex, alluring animal touch enhances the crushed raspberry notes. On the palate, the effect is striking: an airy texture that seems weightless, carried by the silkiest of tannins. Then the depth of earthy tones and dark fruit takes hold, like a spellbinding stroll through the cellars of Saint-Émilion, or a journey back in time. The very embodiment of a mineral wine.

Black and purple color. Intense, delicate, fruity, pure, ripe, subtle, fresh, floral nose. Broad on the attack, with an ultra-refined mouthfeel; the wine melts on the palate, juicy and fresh. From mid-palate onward, a powerful, almost spirited aromatic concentration emerges, where a thousand shimmering flavors intertwine. A pulpy wine that goes down like milk. This sculpted expression is owed to the presence of 31% Cabernet Franc, the highest ever seen in this cru (+69% Merlot), and to the total commitment of Joséphine Duffau Lagarrosse, returning in her grandfather’s footsteps. Alcohol: 14.5% – pH: 3.5. Yield: 42 hl/ha.