2020 Beauregard
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Tasted blind. Very dark with black core. Dark-fruited and a touch savoury on the nose, inviting dark-fruit purity. Rich and dense but also cool and fresh. Dry, layered fine tannins. Elegant and long. (JH)
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Jancis Robinson MW
More reviews and scores
The 2020 Beauregard shows a little overripeness on the nose. It lacks the delineation of the La Fleur de Gay, though it offers attractive boysenberry and bilberry aromas. With aeration, it gains more composure and finesse. The palate is medium-bodied and quite structured with saturated tannins, but the finish tapers quicker than I would have liked. This needs to flesh out a bit. It's in a gawky stage as it showed far superior just after bottling. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.
The 2020 Beauregard offers up aromas of rich berries, cherries, licorice and sweet soil tones, followed by a medium to full-bodied, firm and rather extracted palate. There's certainly some substance here, so perhaps time will be kind to it?
Showing beautifully, the 2020 Château Beauregard displays a pure, precise, elegant, medium to full-bodied style that stays compact and focused. Giving up lots of ripe black cherries, blackberries, leafy herbs, graphite, and chalky minerality, it has ripe, finely polished tannins, remarkable purity, and outstanding length. It needs to be forgotten for 4-6 years and, I suspect, will have 20-25 years of overall longevity. It's a pretty, pure, elegant, incredibly impressive Pomerol.
About the producer
Named after its founder, Bernard Beauregard, this property is one of few Pomerol addresses to have an actual château – here a stately 18th-century construction designed by the man behind Bordeaux’s Grand Théâtre.