2022 Beau-Sejour-Becot

Chateau Beau-Sejour-Becot

“This is very fresh, expressive and focused, with violet, iris and rosehip notes darting to the fore, while flavors of sleek raspberry and red currant preserves race along behind. Almost flattering, but there’s a subtle chalky tension piercing the finish, which sails through. A dreamy wine. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Best from 2026 through 2040. 1,600 cases imported.“

James Molesworth; Wine Spectator



100/100 Antonio Galloni; Vinous

98/100 Jeb Dunnuck

97/100 The Wine Advocate

96/100 Wine Spectator

96/100 Yves Beck

96/100 Decanter

19/20 Schweizerische Weinzeitung

93-95/100 Wine Doctor 

98 Antonio Galloni, Décembre 2023 (Février 2024) :

The 2021 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is very possibly the wine of the vintage. Vertical and explosive, the 2021 possesses mind-blowing intensity and dynamic energy to burn. The 2021 is a heady, racy wine that captivates all the senses. Tobacco, mocha, cedar, leather, dried herbs, menthol, licorice and plum saturate the palate in a wine that dazzles from start to finish. The 2021 was bottled in late September 2023, much later than most wines, yet it is so expressive today. It was magnificent from barrel, and it is every bit as breathtaking today. Quite simply, Les Carmes is on another level. Bravo!

95 Neal Martin, Novembre 2023 (Février 2024) :

The 2021 Les Carmes Haut-Brion was one of the best wines of the vintage when I tasted from barrel. This contains 49% whole-bunch (a slightly higher figure than Guillaume Pouthier gave me during en primeur). The barrel-aging has what Pouthier called a « white toasting », very light, so that you don’t smell the oak (70% new). It has a complex bouquet, quite open with mainly red fruit, cedar and hints of pressed violet. The palate is medium-bodied with finely chiseled, unobtrusive tannins that imbue this Pessac with a sense of symmetry. It posseses thrilling salinity and is a little granular in texture on the finsih, completing perhaps the most impressive wine of this challenging season.