Region France - Bordeaux - Pauillac
Grapes: 70% Cabernet, 25% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc
Alcohol: 14%
"Glossy black cherry and blueberry fruit with a voluptuous smoky quality from the lashings of new French oak. The fine pencil-shaving tannins are already starting to melt away revealing a rewarding freshness. Very smart wine. 97 points." - Decanter (WWA) 8/25
Notes on the Wine
Displays classic Pauillac aromas of lovely cassis and gravelly stone. Dark violet in color expressing a youthful hue. The medium acidity reflects its ability to continue to age with a backbone. This medium to full-bodied wine shows good clay and mineral-granite character along the length of the palate; while being encased in red currant and violet essence. This wine will continue to get better over the next 10 years.
Notes on the Producer
Chateau Haut de la Bécade has been owned by the Rainaud family since the 1930’s, over seven generations. This 8-hectare estate benefits from a magnificent terroir of gravelly soil located at the heart of the locality Bages, just south of Pauillac.
La Bécade’s vineyards are contiguous to 7 Grands Crus Classés—an exceptional situation which makes it a rare, and thus very sought-after, Pauillac wine.
