2019 | Château Beauséjour Héritiers Duffau-Lagarrosse | Beausejour 6L

Blackberries and black chocolate with licorice and berry highlights. Flowers and crushed stones, too. It’s medium-to full-bodied with firm, creamy tannins and a flavorful finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2019 Beauséjour (Duffau Lagarrosse) has turned out beautifully in bottle. Wafting from the glass with aromas of wild blueberries, raspberries, violets, rose petals and forest floor, framed by a deft application of creamy new oak, it's medium to full-bodied, seamless and layered, with a lively core of fruit, bright acids and fine, powdery tannins, concluding with a long, precise, saline finish. It displays all the structural refinement and vibrancy of flavor that this sector of Saint-Émilion's limestone plateau is capable of.

• Jeb Dunnuck: From one of my favorite châteaux on the Right Bank, the 2019 Château Beauséjour (Duffau-Lagarrosse) is 86% Merlot and 14% Cabernet Franc brought up in a mix of new and used barrels. It's a tighter, more closed 2019, yet it offers beautiful purity and focus in its cassis and black raspberry fruits as well as notes of tobacco leaf, graphite, chocolate, and chalky minerality. Rich, medium to full-bodied, beautifully balanced, and again, with this remarkable purity and precision, it has enough tannins to warrant 4-6 years in the cellar and will be incredibly long-lived. It's a beautiful Saint-Emilion. It’s worth pointing out that the 2019 is the vintage bottled by Nicolas Thienpont and starting in 2021, the estate is in the hands of Josephine Duffau-Lagarrosse.

Producer Information

Château Beauséjour Héritiers Duffau-Lagarrosse is a Saint-Emilion wine estate classified as a Premier Grand Cru Classé B in the Right Bank Bordeaux region. It makes red wine mostly from Merlot, typical of the style of Saint-Émilion and Right Bank Bordeaux producers. The property had been a larger single estate until 1869 when it was divided between the two children of its original owner, Pierre-Paulin Ducarpe. The château and half the vineyards were inherited by his daughter, who married into the Duffau-Lagarrosse family. The other half of the property went to Ducarpe's son and has become the modern estate Château Beau-Séjour Bécot. Pierre-Paulin Ducarpe's daughter took her husband's name, which now appears in the estate's full name: Château Beauséjour Héritiers Duffau-Lagarrosse (literally "Château Beauséjour Heirs of Duffau-Lagarrosse"). It has since been passed down through nine generations and remains in the family. In early 2021, however, following a labyrinthine ownership saga – including potential takeovers by neighboring château owners – the running of the estate remained in the hands of the Duffau-Lagarrosse family through Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse. Ownership, however, passed to Courtin-Clarins family, best-known for their beauty product company, Clarins. Beauséjour has 6.75 hectares (16.5 acres) under vine, planted predominantly to Merlot, with a lesser portion of Cabernet Franc. The estate had a small amount of Cabernet Sauvignon but this has since been grafted with Cabernet Franc. Although the estate did not figure in the original 1955 classification (its namesake, Château Beauséjour-Fagouet – which became Beau-Séjour Bécot in 1969 – was named a Premier Cru Classé B), it was ranked Premier Cru Classé B in the subsequent, 1969, iteration – a status the château has retained since. Beauséjour's reputation further grew in the 1990s, when American critic Robert Parker gave the 1990 vintage a perfect 100 points. In 2009, Nicolas Thienpont from Château Pavie Macquin was hired to modernize Château Beauséjour, along with famous consultants Michel Rolland and Stéphane Derenoncourt. Changes brought on by the trio, including fermentation of whole grapes and punching down in open fermentation tanks, began with the 2009 vintage. The 2009 and 2010 vintages went on to score 100 points each from Parker.

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