Today David Allen MW, our Wine Director rounds off his tastings of wines from The Cateja Family’s properties in Bordeaux with a look at Chateau Beau Site 2019 from Saint Estephe – a great value wine with a long future. Our appretiaon goes to the Casteja family and their company Borie Manoux for supplying these wines to taste.
Château Beau-Site is an estate in the Saint-Estèphe appellation at the north of Bordeaux’s Médoc region. The estate was classified as a Cru Bourgeois Supérieur until the Cru Bourgeois system was dropped in 2007. It makes a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant wines from beautifully sited vineyards overlooking the Gironde Estuary.
Beau-Site has cellars dating back to the 18th Century and is one of several châteaux owned by Bordeaux’s well-known Castéja family through their large négociant business, Borie-Manoux. The property covers over 100 hectares (247 acres) with roughly 35 hectares (86 acres) of vineyard.
It is planted mostly to Cabernet Sauvignon, which takes up 60 percent of the land under vine. Merlot is the second most-planted grape at 30 percent, followed by small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.
The château was awarded the status of Cru Bourgeois Supérieur in the 1932 Cru Bourgeois classification, before the system was annulled at the beginning of the 21st Century. Beau-Site has been in the Castéja family since 1955.
To find out more about this wine and where to buy it go to the Wine-Searcher website
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