Château Belair Monange, 1er Grand Cru Classé, St Emilion
    Château Belair Monange

    Château Belair Monange, 1er Grand Cru Classé, St Emilion, 2010

    98/100
    Inside Bordeaux
    90/100
    Vinous
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    Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

    Belair Monange, which incorporates the vineyards of Magdelaine occupies an enviable position on the limestone Cote to the west of Chateau Ausone. We always taste this wine at the end of the JP Moueix tasting as it is so floral, lifted and very different to the style of the Pomerol range. Produced from 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Franc, the 2015 has that tell-tale profile of a wine produced from a great limestone site. It is brimming with high toned morello cherries, griotte, intense minerals and roses. It is vital, intense, engaging and utterly mouth-watering. The fruit is sumptuous, bright and silky, interspersed with notes of redcurrant and saline. This is an uplifting, seductive and deceptively powerful Belair Monange - bravo.

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    Critic Reviews

    98/100
    Jane Anson,
    Inside Bordeaux
    Considering that this was two years before Belair tooks today's shape by bringing in the vineyards of Château Magdeleine (also Moueix owned), it is extremely impressive just how complete, balanced and just purely enjoyable this is. As with the 2009, it has a ton of personality and character, placing it fully on the limestone plateau with its pumice stone minerality, and its restrained, subtle but pleasure-driven fennel and anis-studded brambled fruits. 50% new oak for ageing.
    drinking window 2025 - 2045
    date of review 10/2024
    90/100
    Neal Martin,
    Vinous
    The 2010 Belair-Monange has a ripe and candied bouquet with touches of boiled sweets and liquorice infusing the opulent red fruit. The palate is full-bodied and sinewy with ample red and black fruit, white pepper and Chinese 5-spice notes. Just when I think it is going to kick on towards the finish, it just loses a bit of momentum and seems to run out of ideas. Enjoyable, but not really the archetypal Right Bank. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 10-Year On Bordeaux horizontal.
    date of review 04/2020

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    Country:
    France
    Region:
    Bordeaux
    Appellation:
    St Emilion
    style:
    Red Wine
    Grape Variety:
    Merlot Cabernet
    abv:
    15%

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