2005 | Chteau Beychevelle | Saint-Julien (Magnum)

Red Wine: 2005 | Chteau Beychevelle | Saint-Julien (Magnum)

An attractive nose of raspberries and apples leads to a silky palate, with a fine texture of fresh red fruit flavours, providing a crisp, concentrated wine.

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Producer: Chteau Beychevelle

Ratings: WA | 96 WE | 93

Vintage: 2005

Size: 1.5L

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red

Country/Region: France, Saint-Julien

An attractive nose of raspberries and apples leads to a silky palate, with a fine texture of fresh red fruit flavours, providing a crisp, concentrated wine.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: While this is a strong effort from a property that too often does not live up to its pedigree, I had hoped the 2005 Beychevelle would merit an even higher score. A deep ruby/purple hue is accompanied by a sweet perfume of roasted herbs, black cherries, and even blacker fruits. The wine is medium to full-bodied with sweet tannin, good acidity, and a fruitcake-like spiciness and earthiness. Pure and long with a tannic clout that is neither intrusive nor excessive, this elegant, powerful effort should be at its finest between 2017-2030.

• James Suckling: Very much in an elegant style, this wine shows soft, almost velvet tannins supporting the ripe fruit. It has richness, a round character masking the dense texture, and setting off the clean red berry fruits and fresh acidity.

Producer Information

Chteau Beychevelle is a well-regarded wine estate based in the Saint-Julien appellation of Bordeaux’s northern Haut-Mdoc wine region, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary.. The estate’s flagship, Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant, wine is known for its supple power and smooth, rich texture, and better vintages have great aging ability. In the Bordeaux Classification of 1855 it was ranked a fourth growth. The 250-hectare (620-acre) estate is situated in the extreme southeast of the Saint-Julien appellation, just outside the small commune of Beychevelle. The chteau building lies just east of Branaire-Ducru and south of Ducru-Beaucaillou. The Beychevelle vineyard covers 90 hectares (222 acres) of deep Garonne gravel, with 62 percent planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, which is dominant in the wine itself. The remaining vineyard has 31 percent Merlot, 5 percent Cabernet Franc and 2 percent Petit Verdot. The eponymous flagship wine, or “grand vin”, is aged for 18 months in oak barrels, half of which are new. A second wine, Amiral de Beychevelle, is made from lots not earmarked for the grand vin. A few plots in the vineyard lie outside the Saint-Julien border and so are made under the Haut-Mdoc classification as Les Brulires de Beychevelle. The name Beychevelle comes from the first Duke of Epernon, a navy admiral who owned the estate in the 16th Century. Boats that passed on the Garonne had to lower their sails in deference and the term “Baisse-Voile” (lowering of sails) became Beychevelle. This nautical theme extends to the ship with a griffin prow featured on the label. The Chteau is currently owned by the Castel-Suntory joint venture, Grand Millsimes de France.