2025 Joanin Becot
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The 2025 Joanin Bécot, which now contains 0.80 hectares of pre-phylloxera vines and matured in 50% new oak plus 35% foudres and the rest in amphora, has a pretty blackcurrant pastille and raspberry-scented bouquet with fine delineation. Not powerful, but precise. The palate is medium-bodied with quite firm tannins on the entry, fine sapidity, linear in style, with a touch of cracked black pepper on the finish. The Cabernet is actually quite expressive here, though the wine will fill out during its barrel maturation and gain more flesh.
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Neal Martin
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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Black raspberry, cassis, graphite, sappy flowers, and some chalky minerality all emerge from the 2025 Château Joanin Bécot, a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc from Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It's medium-bodied on the palate, beautifully balanced, and elegantly textured, with fine, polished tannins. It's another brilliant wine from this family that readers should snatch up, and it will stand side by side with a brilliant Saint-Émilion. Buy a case and thank me later.
The 2025 Joanin-Bécot is fabulous. Dark and sumptuous, with gorgeous fruit purity, the 2025 is positively stellar. I don’t think I have tasted a Joanin-Bécot with this much intensity and sheer textural presence. Inky dark red/purplish fruit, spice, new leather, dried flowers and lavender open first, followed by a range of floral and savory Cabernet Franc overtones. Clay-rich soils lend notable breadth and presence. The resonant, expansive finish is stunning.
Another sleeper of the vintage, the 2025 Joanin Bécot is as gourmand and energetic as ever, revealing aromas of iris, lilac, dark berries and flowers. Medium- to full-bodied, juicy and enveloping, it’s tense and vibrant, built around a perfumed, fruit-driven mid-palate that leads to an ethereal, floral finish. It's a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc.