#11 Jeb Dunnuck's Top 100 2023
#54 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of France 2023
#63 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2023

What a beautiful young wine, showing so much finesse and tension, with ultra-fine tannins and subtle and long flavors and character. It’s medium-bodied with extremely silky tannins that grow on the palate to a seamless finish. Harmonious. Another fine Pomerol for the cellar.
James Suckling

98 POINTS - JAMES SUCKLING

The 2020 Château Clinet checks in as a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, brought up in 80% new French oak. It's a rich, yet gorgeous wine with a wonderful sense of freshness in its ripe blue and black fruits as well as tobacco, chocolate, and damp earth. Full-bodied, beautifully balanced, and elegant on the palate, it has perfect tannins, a layered, elegant mouthfeel, and one hell of an impressive finish. One of the finest Pomerols in the vintage, it will benefit from just 3-5 years of bottle age and keep for two decades.- Jeb Dunnuck


98 POINTS - JEB DUNNUCK

100 /100 Decanter.com

A sensational Troplong. Vibrant and vivid, this makes you smile from the
first smell: milk chocolate, floral notes of roses and lavender, wet stones, liquorice, cinnamon and ripe bramble fruits. Round and thrilling on the palate, tannins are abundant with a chalky blueberry coolness while a salty tang settles around the mouth. Lovely precision and purity of fruit; you feel the sharp definition - still linear which makes it less immediately charming than the 2019 but giving undeniable complexity. Deep but not heady, this remains pure and detailed, with a leanness from the terroir really setting this apart. After a few minutes, the glamour starts to appear giving a salivating, succulent and moreish aspect to the finish. An absolute beauty.
Georgina Hindle, January 2023

98 points The Wine Independent
The 2019 Leoville Barton is deep garnet-purple in color. It needs a fait bit of swirling to coax out wonderfully pure notes of blackcurrant jelly, wild blueberries, and boysenberries, followed by hints of tar, lavender, crushed rocks, and fragrant soil. The medium to full-bodied palate is an exercise in elegance, with very fine-grained, silt-like tannins and beautiful tension framing the highly nuanced black fruits, finishing very long and fantastically layered. (LPB)

Le Château Beychevelle se situe dans la commune de Saint-Julien-Beychevelle. Il est l’un des crus les plus prestigieux de l’appellation Saint-Julien, et l’un des plus beaux châteaux du Médoc. De tous temps, les hommes de Beychevelle règnent sur leurs terres en veillant à donner au château tout son prestige.
Depuis sa construction en 1565 par l’évêque François de Foix-Candale, puis le règne des Ducs d’Epernon (dont le grand amiral Jean-Louis Nogaret de la Valette est le premier), sa reconstruction en 1757 par le marquis de Brassier, son agrandissement par la famille Heine, puis la dynastie de la famille Achille-Fould jusqu’en 1986, le château ne cesse d’étonner ses visiteurs, aussi bien par ses vignobles que par ses lieux de vie.
Il produit millésime après millésime un vin d’une régularité exemplaire, devenu Quatrième Grand Cru classé de l’appellation Saint Julien en 1855. Depuis les années 80, le Château Beychevelle appartient à la société des Grands Millésimes de France.