Beausejour Duffau-Lagarrosse

Specification

Producer

Beausejour Duffau-Lagarrosse

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux

Classification

Premier Grand Cru Classé, Saint-Émilion

Grapes

Merlot, Cabernet Franc

Vintage

1996

Case

75cl

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

BEADUF961X75

About this wine

Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse is a Saint-Émilion of the limestone plateau and its slopes, made predominantly from Merlot with Cabernet Franc. It combines ripe, dark fruit with marked freshness, mineral precision and firm, fine tannins. It needs ten years or more to open, and the best vintages age for several decades.

About Beausejour Duffau-Lagarrosse

Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse sits on the western edge of the Saint-Émilion limestone plateau and its slopes, beside neighbours such as Canon and Beau-Séjour Bécot. It was ranked Premier Grand Cru Classé in the first Saint-Émilion classification of 1955 and belonged to the Duffau-Lagarrosse family from the nineteenth century.

In 2021 the estate was bought by a family member, Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse, together with the Courtin family of Clarins, and it now uses the name Château Beauséjour. Its limestone soils give wines of great freshness and structure, which collectors know to be long-lived.