LiQuery - Ch�teau Beychevelle 2016

Item:	667733
Size:	750 mL (25.4 oz)
Type:	2016 VINTAGES
Release Date:	2019-01-22
Producer:	Joanne Bordeaux
Location:	France - Bordeaux
Price:	$244.85 Price History
Style:	Red Wine
Alcohol:	13.5%
Varietal:	Bordeaux
Sugar Code:	XD (2.0 g/L)
Rating:	96
Glass Style:	Voigner/Chardonnay Purchase Glass

Description
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Tasting Notes
The 2016 Beychevelle is a blend of 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 47% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc cropped at 45 hectoliters per hectare between 3 October and 18 October. It is matured in 50% new oak. Furthermore, it is the first vintage to be matured in the new chichi winery whose glass exterior overlooks the passing traffic on the D2. It has a very pure, fragrant bouquet with black cherries, cassis, cedar and wet limestone, extremely precise to the point where you might think it was from the Right Bank (logical given the proportion of Merlot in the blend). The palate is sensational: understated at first and bridled with ultra-fine tannin, it is a Beychevelle armed with a disarming sense of symmetry. It builds in the mouth towards a fabulously tensile finish that is so fresh and full of energy that the senses are almost overwhelmed. Frankly, it leaves all the other Beychevelles in recent years standing. This is an electrifying 2016 from winemaker Philippe Blanc and his

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