Ch. Beychevelle
Grand Vin
Saint Julien
2016

The producer

Chateau Beychevelle, a Classified 3rd Growth from Saint-Julien, spans 90 hectares of vineyards. These vines are planted on a characteristic terroir of deep gravel from the Garonne.

This is very good Bordeaux at an agreeable price.

The wine

Chateau Beychevelle 2016 is a refined and elegant wine that upholds the long-standing tradition of the estate. Its precise and generous palate is enveloped in silky, voluptuous flavors. This wine boasts a rare beauty and power, perfectly balancing subtlety, complexity, freshness, and depth.

We choose our wines based on a range of criteria (see how we choose our wines) of which critic scores is just one. Rather than simply highlight the best score to promote a wine, our average critic score is calculated from the scores provided by several respected wine critics, who we follow for specific regions. They do not represent all critic scores and, wherever possible, we try and give more weight to more recent reviews. Where appropriate we consider market-based scores like Global Wine Score or Wine Searcher Average scores.

As a rule, we look to offer wines that achieve a 92/100 average critic score or better and frankly a lot of very good wines simply don’t make the cut. As a high-end provider we want to reflect that positioning in the quality of wines we offer. Such wines are only a tiny fraction of those generally on offer in the market. We believe that an average score is a more conservative and representative approach, but it is still subjective and only offered as a guide to our customers, who will (and should) do their own research. We will add individual critic scores to our website in the future.