Château Beauséjour Duffau

Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

2018

Blend

80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc

Wine designation

Château Beauséjour Duffau, Red, 2018
Category: Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, 1er Grand Cru Classé, Bordeaux

Food pairing

Serve with beef steak with truffle sauce and seasonal vegetables, hare fillet, rack of lamb confit or roast quail with mushrooms.

Data sheet

Château Beauséjour Duffau

Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

2018

Tasting notes

Intensely perfumed, this vintage unfurls a deliciously soft, melt-in-the-mouth texture right from the start. With great depth, the palate becomes suave, stretching into the length of an incredibly persistent finish, full of nobility.

Vineyard

Vineyard size: 6.8 hectares

Soil composition: Clay-limestone soils

Winemaking

Fermentation container: Small concrete vats

Maceration technique: Optimal vinification conditions, thanks to gravity inertia and perfect temperature control.

Aging: Oaks barrels

12 to 14 months.

Type of oak: French

Bottles produced: 40 000

Consulting œnologist: Axel Marchal et Julien Viaud

Heritage in the vineyard

Domaine

In the Duffau-Lagarosse family since 1847, Beauséjour (HDL for insiders) was sold in 2021 to the Courtin family (Clarins Group), associated with Joséphine Duffau-Lagarosse, an agricultural engineer and oenologist who owns 11% of the shares. Her father, Vincent, managed the estate on behalf of the 32 heirs, while Joséphine vinified abroad. On her return to France, she worked as technical director at Château du Taillan, then in the Bernard Magrez group, before taking over this premier cru located on the west coast and previously run by the team formed by Nicolas Thienpont and David Suire.

Green in the vineyard

Environmental practices

Combination of traditional methods (ploughing) and sown grass cover. Continuous vineyard renewal program: uprooting, replanting, massal selection planting at higher density. Manual interventions: debudding, leaf, thinning.