Château Beauséjour Duffau Lagarrosse, Grand Cru Classé St Emilion, 2009

Name: Château Beauséjour Duffau Lagarrosse, Grand Cru Classé St Emilion
Brand: Château Beauséjour
Price: 2926.25 GBP

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all 1994 2009 2011 2013 2014 2015 2019 2021

critic reviews

94/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Subdued on the opening notes, wrapped in dark pepper spice, capsicum, fennel, incense and crayon. A sweeter, richer black cherry fruit emerges after good 15 minutes of opening, and the shape evolves in the glass, showing greater delicacy and nuance as the limestone soils give lift and texture. This was the vintage that Nicolas Thienpont and Stéphane Derenoncourt arrived at the estate, and began to shake things up.

DRINKING WINDOW 2024 - 2045

date of review 10/2024

100/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

A blend of 77% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2009 Beausejour Duffau-Lagarrosse has a deep garnet color. It storms out of the glass with powerful notes of baked plums, boysenberry preserves, and licorice, giving way to nuances of black truffles, candied violets, and mossy tree bark, with a fragrant touch of sandalwood. The full-bodied palate is rich and impactful, delivering perfumed black fruits with a firm frame of velvety tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and opulent. A gorgeous wine.

DRINKING WINDOW 2034 - 2054

date of review 04/2024

91/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2009 Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse has a very composed and focused bouquet with brambly red fruit, mulberry, loam and cedar aromas, maybe just a little new oak still waiting to be fully subsumed after 10 years. The palate is well balanced with a medicinal, honey textured opening, plenty of cough candy infusing the red fruit, good depth but just missing some grip and density on the rather one-dimensional finish. This has not aged as well as some of the others from Nicolas Thienpont's stable, such as Larcis Ducasse and this is one example where I prefer the preceding vintage. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners’ 2009 Bordeaux tasting.

DRINKING WINDOW 2020 - 2035

date of review 03/2019