Château Belair Monange
Château Belair Monange, 1er Grand Cru Classé, St Emilion, 2019
97/100
Inside Bordeaux
98/100
The Wine Independent
94+/100
Vinous
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2019
6x75cl
DP
£779.08
2019
6x75cl
DP
£779.08
Broking
2019
6x75cl
DP
£617.08
2019
6x75cl
DP
£647.08
Justerini & Brooks Tasting note
Belair Monange, which incorporates the vineyards of Belair and 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 different from the style of the Pomerol range. Produced from 98% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc, the 2019 displays all the class of this great limestone terroir. Initially this is impenetrable. With aeration one gets a glimpse of the intensely mineral, limestone influenced bouquet; you can really smell the terroir. Then black cherry and starry red berries, goji, Sanguinello orange, morello cherry, cinnamon and dark chocolate – this just hints at the staggeringly broad aromatic profile. The palate is equally broad and has wonderful persistence. Pure redcurrants, crème de mûre, Asian spice, sweet dark earth; it has wonderful mouthcoating fruit, slick and refined yet authoritative, beautifully textured and so fresh. This is one of the most cerebral and complex wines we have tasted from 2019. It’s like a ballerina, powerful yet graceful; an utterly compelling Belair Monange.
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Critic Reviews
94+/100
Neal Martin,
Vinous
The 2019 Bélair-Monange has a more tertiary nose, backward and broody, almost Left Bank in style. This demands much more coaxing from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with a slightly chocolaty opening. The oak a little too thick maybe? Plenty of fruit behind it, quite plush on the finish, but missing the intellect that previous bottles have displayed. Maybe entering an awkward adolescence? Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.
drinking window 2025 - 2045
date of review 02/2023
98/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown,
The Wine Independent
The 2019 Belair-Monange is a blend of 96% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet-purple colored, it sashays out with alluring notions of black raspberries, redcurrant jelly, preserved plums, and wild blueberries, plus hints of cinnamon stick, rose oil, underbrush, and dark chocolate. Full-bodied, concentrated, and impactful, it has a solid line of ripe, rounded tannins and seamless freshness, finishing very long and fragrant.
drinking window 2026 - 2055
date of review 05/2022
97/100
Jane Anson,
Inside Bordeaux
Such a lesson in limestone terroir with its precision, knife-spliced and restrained violet flowers, raspberry and redcurrant fruits. You need to chisel through the austerity to get to the creamy, fleshy side of these fruits but it is very definitely there. So good, enjoy, take your time, give 6 to 8 years to fully let that creamy raspberry puree and deeper black cherry side come out to join saffron, sage and slate minerality. Love it. Harvest September 19 to October 3. 50% new oak.
drinking window 2029 - 2048
date of review 01/2022
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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.
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