Château Joanin Bécot: Tasting & Drinking
There is no denying, looking back over my tasting notes, that the aromatic and flavour profile as well as the structure found in the wines of Château Joanin Bécot is in a very modern style. The fruit frequently resembles sweetly concentrated black plum and black cherry, occasionally veering into a smudged or diffuse style, a little too warm and worked. The tannic structure is usually quite considerable, while the texture tends to have a middleweight substance.
Having said that, this is not a wine which treads too far into that camp; it does not carrying overtly cooked, prune-like flavours, or painfully extracted tannins. It is a wine that teeters on the brink, and I am sure it achieves what Juliette Bécot and her team set out to achieve, which is to make a high-quality wine which says something about the region, its terroir and its origins. And the structure would suggest this will age well, certainly over five-to-ten years, perhaps longer.
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