Château Beausejour Duffau 1990
Château Beauséjour Duffau 1990 is a red Saint-Émilion Premier Grand Cru Classé B wine produced in Bordeaux by Château Beauséjour Duffau. It blends 81% Merlot and 19% Cabernet Franc. The Wine Advocate awards it 100/100 and recommends drinking from 2020 to 2040; James Suckling rates it 96/100. Critics describe a highly concentrated and tannic wine driven by a precise mineral backbone, with nuances of dark fruit, dried fruit, forest floor, and earth.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bordeaux
- Appellation
- Saint Emilion
- Producteur / Domaine
- Château Beauséjour Duffau
- Millésime
- 1990
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 81% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc
Château Beauséjour Duffau
Château Beauséjour, also known as Beauséjour J. Duffau-Lagarrosse, is a Saint-Émilion estate set on 6.8 hectares of south- and south-west-facing clay-limestone plateau and hillside. The estate, whose family history dates back to 1847, has been classified as one of Saint-Émilion’s Premiers Grands Crus Classés since 1955. Since 2021, it has been co-managed by Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse and Prisca Courtin, of the Courtin-Clarins family.
- Owner
- Famille Courtin (groupe Clarins) et Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse
- Maître de chais
- Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse
- Surface (ha)
- 6.80 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 20 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
Château Beauséjour is situated in Saint-Émilion, on a vineyard comprising plateau and hillside plots set on clay-limestone soils. The estate came into the possession of the Duffau-Lagarrosse family in 1847. It has been listed amongst the Premiers Grands Crus Classés of Saint-Émilion since the original classification of 1955. After having been passed down within the Duffau-Lagarrosse family for over 170 years, it changed ownership in April 2021. The Courtin-Clarins family then acquired the estate alongside Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse, a representative of the ninth generation of the family and a minority shareholder. Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse oversees production and winemaking, supported by consultant oenologists Axel Marchal and Julien Viaud. The winery was renovated following the change of ownership, with an increase in the number of concrete vats to enhance plot-by-plot winemaking.
