Chateau Beausejour Heritiers Duffau Lagarrosse is located in the Saint-Emilion appellation. From the winery's terrace, you can enjoy the magnificent Dordogne, the endless vineyards and the nearby pigeon loft. To reach the Beausser Estate, you must first climb the Church of Saint-Martin, which is next to the winery building made of golden stone. In addition to its stunning views, the winery also produces excellent wines, which have been selected as Premier Grand Cru Classe B in the Saint-Emilion classification.
Bosai Manor (Image: beausejourhdl.fr)
Family management, the pursuit of excellence
Managed by the Duffau-Lagarrosse family since 1847, the Beaussé estate has been a source of nearly 200 years of wine quality and is popular with wine professionals and enthusiasts alike. In order to produce exceptional Saint-Emilion wines, the Estates of Bossey hired Michel Rolland, a "flying winemaker", as an winemaking consultant to help with the blending of the wines. In 2009, the estate invited stephane Derenoncourt, a renowned master winemaker, and Nicolas Thienpont from the Thienpont family of the Bordo men to join the technical team. Under the strong combination of the three big coffees, the quality of the wine of bosai estate has been significantly improved.
Bosai Manor (Image: beausejourhdl.fr)
In 2021, the Courtin-Clarins family, which owns the famous French cosmetics brand Clarins, acquired the Bosé estate and became the owner of the Bosè estate, but the operation of the winery is still run by the Duffe-Lagaros family.
High-quality terroir, carefully cultivated
The Bossay estate covers a total of 6.75 hectares, and the vineyards are located on a hillside with a vertical height of 30 meters, facing south and southwest, and the vines receive plenty of light to allow the fruit to reach the desired ripeness. The soil in the garden is based on limestone as the subsoil, and the topsoil can be roughly divided into three parts according to the position of the hillside, with stellate limestone and clay at the top of the hillside, calcareous sand and Flongsadi sandstone in the middle, and ancient avalanche soil at the lower point.
Bossay Estate Vineyards (Image: beausejourhdl.fr)
The main variety grown in the winery's vineyards is Merlot, which adapts well to the clay environment and brings a full-bodied taste to the wine. Today, Cabernet Franc is also becoming an important variety for wineries, grafted onto Cabernet Sauvinon rootstocks on a single plot and planted on warm limestone terraces within the vineyard, adding tension and vitality to the wine in the blend. In addition, the vines in the vineyard are 35 years old, including some of the merlot vines planted in 1957, producing grapes of outstanding quality.
The Bossay estate attaches great importance to the quality of the grapes, so when managing the vineyard, the winery will take care of and prune it according to the condition of the vintage and the condition of each vine itself. Finally, when the grapes reach the desired ripeness, the winery arranges for careful workers to pick them.
Hand-screening of grapes and fruits (Image: beausejourhdl.fr)
When making wine, the Bosay estate ferments and ages the grapes separately according to the plot to show the terroir of the vineyard and allow each batch to reach its full potential. The winery's cellar sits beneath the vineyard, once an underground quarry with cool and constant temperatures, where wineries age wines for months, allowing them to transform and blossom in the baptism of time.
Terroir characteristics, quality is preferred
Currently, the château produces only two wines: Chateau Beausejour Heritiers Duffau Lagarrosse, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, France) and Duffau Lagarrosse Croix de Beausejour, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, France）。
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The Château Bosse Red wines are the winery's authentic wines, blended with Merlot and Cabernet Franc, sometimes with small amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon, and the grapes are derived from vines that are 40 years old in the garden. Aromas of black fruits such as blackberries and blackcurrants, sometimes intertwined with violet and mushrooms, are strong and powerful, the flavors are condensed, the wine is medium to full, the aftertaste is long, and the mineral flavor is endless. In the six vintages from 2015 to 2020, the wine received a James Suckling rating of 95 or higher, including the 2015 vintage, which received a perfect rating, and Sacklin praised: "This is an extraordinary wine... This extraordinary wine reminds me of the 1950s in Bordeaux. ”
Beausser Estate Red Wine
The Château de Beausé Cross Red wine is a sub-brand of the estate and is only produced in some vintages, also interpreting the terroir of the Château de Beausé. With fruity aromas of succulent black plum, blackberry and blueberry, as well as fresh herbal aromas such as herbs and tobacco, the wine is medium to full,with solid tannins and a fresh finish.