2020 Chateau Beychevelle - 4eme Cru Classe St. Julien

Falstaff Magazin – (92-94)pts – PM: *Ein sehr klarer, frischer Duft: Holunder, Kirschwasser, Moos und Waldmeister, nussiges Holz. Sandelholz. Auch etwas Lakritze und Veilchenpastille. Cremiger Auftakt, gut und mit Augenmaß extrahierte Gerbstoffe: reif, mürb, dennoch frisch, in gut zum Körper passender Menge. Präsente Gaumenfrucht, reife Säure. Ein Wein, der Präzision und Harmonie ausstrahlt. Verkostet von Dr. Ulrich Sautter, 07.06.2020.* - (05/2021)

LPB - 04/21 - 94-96pts: *Deep pruple-black colored, the 2020 Beychevelle offers up vibrant notes of black raspberries, fresh black cherries and cassis, plus hints of wild sage, chocolate mint, rose hip tea and fallen leaves, with an exotic hint of Indian spices. (...)*

Vinum Magazin – 16,5/20pts: *Ausbaugeprägt, Noten von Bitterschokolade und Kirsche; beginnt kompakt, mit spürbar dichter, fester Textur, perfekt reifes Tannin, gut eingebundener Alkohol und langes, fruchtgeprägtes Finale. Gehört zu den besten Weinen dieses Gutes, 17 Punkte wert, wenn das so auf die Flasche kommt.* - 09/2021

Weinwisser - 18/20pts - WL: *51 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 45 % Merlot, 4 % Petit Verdot. Extrem dunkles Purpur mit schwarzer Mitte und zartem lila Rand. Konzentriertes Bouquet mit Veilchenduft, frischen schwarzen Johannisbeeren und dunklem Edelholz, dahinter Brasiltabak und Schokopastillen. Am satten Gaumen mit weicher Textur, fleischigem Extrakt, engmaschigem Tanningerüst und durchtrainiertem Körper. Im gebündelten Finale mit schwarzbeerigen Konturen gepaart mit dunkler Mineralik. Top, auch dieses Jahr!* – 04/2021

JancisRobinson.com – 17,5/20pts – RH: *Cask sample. Combines black fruit with an attractive gravelly quality on the nose – petrichor, perhaps? Long and elegant on the palate. The mineral element gives attractive and immediate complexity.* - 04/2021

JamesSuckling.com - 94-95pts - JS : *Sweet-berry and tobacco character with blackberries and violets. It's full-bodied with firm, polished tannins and a fresh fruit. Very fine at the end.* - 05/2021

Vinous.com – (94-96) pts – AG: *The 2020 Beychevelle opens with the most exotic bouquet imaginable. Wild flowers of all sorts, spice, lavender and inky dark fruit all saturate the palate. As always, Beychevelle is an overt, flamboyant wine, but all of the elements are so well out together. The 2020 is sexy, alluring and impossible to resist. Time in the glass brings out redder tonalities of fruit along with sweet floral notes that add striking inner perfume. Even as a barrel sample, I am so tempted to just drink it.* - 06/2021

Vinous.com – (94-96) pts – NM: *The 2020 Beychevelle is the one wine that I vowed to re-taste at the château since I found three samples tasting in the UK vexing because of a green taint on the finish. Here, the nose performs well: pure blackberry and crushed violet, none of those incongruous “mulch” or “vegetal” scents that I noticed before. That’s a good omen. The palate? This is far different to the samples tasted before. I think there is still a very nuanced green/bell pepper note towards the finish, but here it is subsumed into the layers of black fruit. Swallowing a sip just to be certain, I am more reassured that the samples in the UK were unrepresentative and glad that I did not attribute a score, which I am happy to do now.* - 05/2021

JL - 04/21 - 95-97pts: *(...) Full-bodied, fresh, elegant, lifted and vibrant, the wine is refined, juicy, sweet and long with an ending packed with ripe, red and black currants, silky tannins, spice and crushed stones from start to finish.*