Chateau Beausejour Duffau-Lagarrosse 2019

WEINWISSER: "86 % Merlot, 14 % Cabernet Franc, 45 hl/ha, 60 % Grand Vin. Undurchsichtiges Purpur mit schwarzer Mitte. Konzentriertes Bouquet mit Wildkirschen, Alpenheidelbeeren und Lakritze. Im zweiten Ansatz duftige Veilchen und schwarze Johannisbeerdrops. Am Gaumen mit geradliniger Struktur und seidigen Tanninen, leicht stützend, eine unglaubliche Rasse gepaart mit der betörenden Extraktsüsse verleihen dem Wein etwas Berauschendes. Im gebündelten Finale zeigt er eine grandiose Präzision und bleibt dabei schlank wie ein Pfeil, der direkt auf die Mitte der Scheibe fliegt. Fantastische Leistung!"

DECANTER: "Gorgeously aromatic and concentrated nose, rich with wild flowers and bramble fruits. Lovely cool blue fruits on the palate, blueberries, plums and black cherries with lashings of graphite, slate and liquorice giving a real spicy menthol mineral tone to the palate. Such complexity with poise and polish. Youthful for sure, but this will be excellent. The texture is so attractive and likeable. This has energy and vibrancy despite still being knitted down, it's just giving a hint of what's to come. Buy and hold on to. Drinking Window 2027 - 2044"

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."

THE 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."

JAMES SUCKLING: "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. Plenty going on here. Very subtle and refined for this estate. Needs two or three years to come together. Try after 2024."