2018 | Chateau Joanin Becot | Castillon Cotes de Bordeaux

Lots of black cherry and redcurrant fruit as well as leafy herbs, dried flowers, chalky minerality, and camphor emerge on the nose. This carries to a medium-bodied, seamless 2018 with terrific overall balance, ripe yet present tannins, and outstanding length on the finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: A blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc, the 2018 Joanin Bécot exhibits delicate aromas of blueberries, flowers and violets with touches of tobacco. Medium to full-bodied, it’s a lively, rather delicate wine with a fleshy core of fruit and a crystalline texture overlaid with a fresh, penetrating finish that has racy acidity.

• James Suckling: A very pretty, subtle red with berry, meat and chocolate aromas that follow through to a medium body with round, creamy tannins and a delicious finish. 30% amphora.

Producer Information

The vineyards that jostle for position around the peripheries of the St Emilion appellation provide very fine hunting grounds for those looking for more realistically priced Bordeaux. And some of these vineyards, particularly those around Montagne-St-Emilion and parts of Castillon, boast some really quite remarkable limestone-loaded soils. Many who work in the region recognise not only the quality of the terroir in these ‘lesser’ appellations, they are also drawn here by the lower land prices; a hectare of vines in Castillon, for example, costs a fraction of what it would require to purchase a hectare of the same in the more prestigious St Emilion appellation. For these reasons numerous proprietors, including some famous names from St Emilion and Pomerol, have set up shop in Castillon. The roll call of names includes Stephan von Neipperg at Château d’Aiguilhe, Stéphane Derenoncourt at Domaine de L’A, Denis Durantou at Château Montlandrie and the Mitjavile family at L’Aurage. And we should not, of course, overlook the work of the Bécot family, at Château Joanin Bécot. Joanin is a small hamlet, in truth little more than a row of roadside residential properties, in the commune of St-Philippe-d’Aiguilhe. It has a long history of viticulture, one embodied by the aforementioned Château d’Aiguilhe, one of Château Joanin Bécot’s most significant neighbours, sitting just a kilometre to the south. Various editions of Cocks et Féret published during the 19th century describe the presence of vineyards at Jouanin [sic] and later Joanin.

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