chateau beychevelle 4eme cru classe st julien

Château Beychevelle

Château Beychevelle, 4ème Cru Classé, St Julien, 2016

Name: Château Beychevelle, 4ème Cru Classé, St Julien
Brand: Château Beychevelle
Price: 633.53 GBP

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2016
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£633.53

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

We were smitten with the 2015 Beychevelle, and 2016 is equally impressive. Compared to the 2015 (which we re-tasted at the Chateau), this is more refined and vibrant. Their Technical Director, Romain Ducolomb showed us around their impressive new winery. This new facility certainly allows them greater precision during wine-making and this shows in the wine, which in 2016 parades a beautiful perfume of bright ripe berries. This is not overly complex, but it is packed with bright seductive juicy fruit and there are nicely polished, supple tannins coated in red cherry fruit. A seamless, harmonious and charming Beychevelle produced from 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 47% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc.

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Critic Reviews

95/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Deep ruby red, with nuance and movement to the colour, signaling its St Julien finesse. This is a wonderful example of the quaity of 2016, still in primary fruit mode, although with plenty of freshness and juice, waves of crushed mint, hedgerow, blackberry and cassis fruits, tannins pretty muscular at this point. Harvest October 3 to 18, 60% new oak for ageing.

drinking window 2036 - 2044

date of review 06/2024

95/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2016 Beychevelle has a very intense, slightly more introverted bouquet than other 2016s that I have tasted: blackberry, incense, cedar and light graphite aromas emerging with time. This is quite Pauillac in style. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, a well-built and structured Beychevelle with ample freshness - more than the 2010 tasted alongside. Based on this showing, the 2016 might be entering a closed phase, so cellar it away for several years. Tasted at the Beychevelle vertical at the property.

drinking window 2028 - 2055

date of review 03/2023

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