May 16, 2025
Beau-Sejour Becot 2024: Magnificent. That's all there is to it
2024 Beau-Séjour Bécot 2024
One of the most difficult to pronounce Bordeaux chateau’s, but unquestionably one of the most exciting. In recent years, it’s been on a roll, producing a string of outstanding wines. The estate is known for its trademark aromatic profile—easily one of the most expressive and perfumed noses in all of Saint-Émilion, leaping from the glass with vibrant intensity.
“The 2024 Beau-Séjour Bécot is deep, vivid and wonderfully alive. Dynamic and explosive, with striking inner perfume, Beau-Séjour Bécot is hauntingly beautiful” - Antonio Galloni
Perched atop Saint-Émilion’s prized limestone plateau, Beau-Séjour Bécot has risen to the top tier of Right Bank estates. This Premier Grand Cru Classé B estate is family-owned and run with thoughtful precision, producing wines of remarkable purity, minerality, and poise. With Cabernet Franc increasingly playing a leading role, the wines show fine tannins, lifted aromatics, and tension. Recent vintages have drawn high praise, confirming Beau-Séjour Bécot’s place among Bordeaux’s most exciting properties.
Beau-Séjour Bécot 2024 is a stunning expression of Saint Emilion. Bursting with blue fruit, rose petal, and savoury minerality, it’s both perfumed and poised. The 78% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc blend brings lifted aromatics, silky tannins, and remarkable elegance. With growing Cabernet influence and a saline, limestone-driven finish, this is one of the vintage’s most refined and complete wines.
The critics loved this wine with high scores, here is what they’ve said:
“Beau-Séjour Bécot has grown into one of the most distinctive wines in Bordeaux. Simply put, the 2024 is magnificent. That's all there is to it.” - Antonio Galloni
“This is brilliant, and I'd put it up with the crème de la crème of the vintage, especially in this elegant, finesse-driven style” - Jeb Dunnuck
“Feels super classic and classy, refined and elegant with cool blue fruit and lots of saltiness, but so distinguished. You really feel the limestone in the glass. Still serious, you feel the Cabernet spiciness but you don't get the impression they struggled with ripeness at all. A great glass. Sappy, fruity, clean and salty. A true wine of place.” - Decanter
Galloni calls it “magnificent.” We call it essential for the wine collection. Especially at the price offered at today. We love this wine and if you haven’t got it as part of your collection, then 2024 is a great place to start.
Beau-Séjour Bécot 2024
€44.10* In Bond per bottle
95-97 Points | Vinous - Antonio Galloni
The 2024 Beau-Séjour Bécot is deep, vivid and wonderfully alive. Dynamic and explosive, with striking inner perfume, Beau-Séjour Bécot is hauntingly beautiful. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, menthol, licorice and rose petal soar out of the glass. Silky, refined tannins add to the wine's finesse. The increase of Cabernet Franc in the blend has added aromatic depth and textural elegance. There's a feeling of transparency here that is impossible to miss. Beau-Séjour Bécot has grown into one of the most distinctive wines in Bordeaux. Simply put, the 2024 is magnificent. That's all there is to it. Élevage is 55% in new oak, 15% in once-used barrels and the rest in 20HL casks. Tasted two times. Drinking Window: 2034 - 2054
96 Points | Decanter, Georgina Hindle
Gorgeous fragrance, really quite deep and vivid, almost an opulence to the perfumed nose. Generous and filling, smooth, silky, round and so vibrant. Juicy and lifted but still with structure - this has acidity, a cool freshness, super fine silky tannins and a soft push from start to finish. Feels super classic and classy, refined and elegant with cool blue fruit and lots of saltiness, but so distinguished. You really feel the limestone in the glass. Still serious, you feel the Cabernet spiciness but you don't get the impression they struggled with ripeness at all. A great glass. Sappy, fruity, clean and salty. A true wine of place. A yield of 32hl/ha, 3.40pH.
93-95 Points | Jeb Dunnuck
The 2024 Château Beau-Séjour Bécot is 78% Merlot and 22% Cabernet Franc, aging in 55% new oak with a small part in foudre. Ripe black cherries, leafy herbs, damp earth, and crushed stone notes define the aromatics, and this beauty hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, an ultra-fine mouthfeel, gorgeous tannins, and a great finish. This is brilliant, and I'd put it up with the crème de la crème of the vintage, especially in this elegant, finesse-driven style. Tasted twice with consistent results.
93-95 Points | The Wine Independent
Deep garnet-purple colored. Waltzes out with showy scents of black cherries, raspberry coulis, and red currant jelly, leading to hints of lavender oil, black olives, and fragrant earth. The light to medium-bodied palate is subtle and racy with silky tannins and a savory lift on the finish.