August 20, 2025
Jane Anson’s Top-Scoring Saint Emilion - 100 Pointed Beausejour 2022
2022 Beausejour 2022 - Top Right Bank of the vintage
100 Points - Jane Anson
“A curl of woodsmoke and cedar aromatics, peony and crushed roses, fleshy black fruits, rose petals, love the switch between the texture of opulent silk and pumice stone tannic grip, this is exceptionally good. […] A potential 100 points during En Primeur, living up to billing."
Perched on Saint Emilion’s limestone plateau, Chateau Beausejour (Duffau-Lagarrosse) is one of Bordeaux’s most thrilling estates. This Premier Grand Cru Classe vineyard, just seven hectares, is famed for producing wines of remarkable depth and finesse. Its clay-limestone soils give a striking minerality and tension, while old vines add layered complexity. With a history rooted in the 19th century and an exciting new generation at the helm, Beausejour delivers powerful yet precise wines that epitomise Saint Emilion’s finest terroir.
In 2021, Chateau Beausejour (Duffau-Lagarrosse) entered a new chapter when it officially shortened its name to Chateau Beausejour. The decision reflected both a respect for tradition and a desire for clarity, aligning the estate with a modern identity while honouring its long history.
Josephine Duffau-Lagarrosse, among Bordeaux’s youngest proprietors, has already transformed Chateau Beausejour. Taking over in 2021, she introduced meticulous vineyard work, lower intervention winemaking and a clear focus on terroir expression. Her aim is purity and elegance without sacrificing power. 2022 is her first vintage that she was there from the start to finish, which makes it even more incredible that her wine got 100 points. The wines are now marked by striking freshness, tension and mineral drive, qualities that reflect both limestone soils and her forward-looking vision. Josephine’s stewardship promises a new golden era for this historic estate.
Selection of top-scoring Right Bank wines by Jane Anson:
The 2022 Chateau Beausejour (Duffau-Lagarrosse) is a breathtaking achievement and a landmark first full vintage for Josephine Duffau-Lagarrosse. From Saint Emilion’s limestone plateau, it combines silk-like richness with chiselled minerality, lifted by a low pH and remarkable freshness. Notes of violets, cassis, peony and chalk unfold across a seamless, layered palate of precision and length. With 18 months in oak and consulting support from Axel Marchal and Julien Viaud, this is a wine of poise, brilliance and long-lived potential.
Jane Anson originally scored the 2022 Beausejour at 98–100 points during En Primeur, alongside other right bank wines Belair-Monange, Lafleur, Ausone and Cheval Blanc. From that elite group, only three achieved a perfect 100 in bottle: Ausone, Belair-Monange and Beausejour. To outscore Cheval Blanc, Figeac, and even Petrus is a remarkable feat, particularly at a fraction of their price.
This week, we are delighted to offer limited 3-packs at an exceptional €139* In Bond per bottle, a rare opportunity to secure an allocation of one of Bordeaux’s most in vogue Chateaus.
Chateau Beausejour (Duffau-Lagarrosse) 2022
€139* In Bond per bottle
100 Points | Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux
A curl of woodsmoke and cedar aromatics, peony and crushed roses, fleshy black fruits, rose petals, love the switch between the texture of opulent silk and pumice stone tannic grip, this is exceptionally good. Josephine Duffau Lagrosse's first vintage from beginning to end. A low 3.4ph, reflecting the limestone soils, bottling two months later than usual because of new cellar construction, so 18 months in barrel, 70% new oak, rest in one year old oak. Axel Marchal and Julien Viaud consultants. A potential 100 points during En Primeur, living up to billing.
98+ Points | Jeb Dunnuck
Violets, ripe black cherries, spring flowers, cassis, and a riveting sense of chalky minerality all shine in the 2022 Château Beauséjour (Duffau-Lagarrosse), another heavenly 2022 that has gorgeous tannins, a seamless, layered, multi-dimensional mouthfeel, ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish. It's not massive or incredibly concentrated, yet it has flawless balance and remarkable length. The pH is 3.45, with an alcohol of 14.5%. It's a more elegant, pure, seamless example of the 2020 vintage and has everything in the right place. Give bottles just 4-6 years if you can and it’s clearly going to have 20-30 years of overall prime drinking, as well as a gradual decline thereafter.
98 Points | Decanter, Georgina Hindle
One of the clear standouts of the vintage! A sensual, fun, salivating and sublime wine from winemaker Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse that manages to give such generosity, power, terroir markers and overall drinkability. Aromatic, scented, open and expressive with cherries, blackcurrants, purple flowers and crushed stones. Sleek and supple, sharp, tangy acidity and concentrated ripe fruit - it’s forward and intense, direct but defined and detailed. Fine and supportive tannins have bite and a mineral tang putting you squarely in St-Emilion on limestone. Raw and wild in a way, but so expressive and open - honest and just such a captivating wine that belies the heat of the vintage with its cool menthol, blue fruits and lifted finish. Streamlined and focussed, sustained, determined and characterful - sleek in the best way, this is confident but not showy. Succulent, classy, polished. A brilliant wine. 3.5pH. A yield of 42hl/ha. Harvest 6 - 9 September for Merlot and 23 September for Cabernet Franc. Julien Viaud and Axel Marchal consultants. 98-100 points.
98 Points | Vinous - Antonio Galloni
The 2022 Beauséjour is fabulous. I find it better from bottle than it was in barrel. Explosive aromatics from the Franc make a strong first impression. Bright acids drive through a core of dark red fruit, blood orange, spice, new leather and espresso. All the elements meld together seamlessly. What a vivid and gorgeous wine this is. I especially admire the long, saline finish. This is a superb effort from the team led by Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse.
97 Points | Vinous - Neal Martin
The 2022 Beauséjour has a gorgeous bouquet with pure redcurrant, raspberry and wild strawberry fruit scents. Hints of pencil shavings and orange sorbet emerge in the background. It’s very harmonious and the oak is seamlessly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, fresh and vibrant with crisp acidity. This is a more intense Beauséjour under Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse, yet it retains delineation from start to finish, with the tongue tingling on the aftertaste. Exchanging the wine between two glasses really brings out the true character of this fabulous Saint-Émilion that is going to give a lot of pleasure. Chapeau Joséphine Duffau!
96+ Points | Wine Advocate, William Kelley
The 2022 Beauséjour (Duffau Lagarrosse) saw a slightly longer élevage than usual, due to construction at the new winery, but that seems to have suited this broad-shouldered, powerful vintage very well. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of blackberries, blood orange, espresso roast, bay leaf and vanilla pod, it's full-bodied, ample and fleshy, with lively acids, chalky tannins and a long, creamy finish. This blend of 69% Merlot and 31% Cabernet Franc is the second vintage made by Joséphine Duffau Lagarrosse since she took control of the family estate in April 2021.
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