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

    Château Belair Monange, 1er Grand Cru Classé, St Emilion, 2022

    98-100/100
    Inside Bordeaux
    97-99/100
    The Wine Independent
    96-98/100
    Vinous
    Available Vintages
    En primeur
    1. 2022

      6x75cl

      EP

      £895.00

    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 2022 displays the class of this great limestone terroir. Initially quite a closed, with aeration aromas of ripe plums, dark chocolate, Asian spice, bergamot, cut flowers and tobacco emerge. Serious and grand scale, the palate is brooding and mineral with lots of fine detail. It's all quite muscled at the moment, but there's enormous potential her as evidence by the evocative tannins and wonderfully saline finish.

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    Critic Reviews

    96-98/100
    Neal Martin,
    Vinous
    The 2022 Bél-Air Monange was picked from 8 to 20 September. It offers copious red fruit on the nose laced with graphite and sous-bois scents, gaining complexity in the glass. I love the detail and delineation of this wine. The palate is medium-bodied with finely-sculpted tannins that frame the layered mineral-rich fruit. Supremely focused with a surfeit of tension on the finish, there's an abiding sense of harmony and completeness to this Saint-Émilion that feels draped in limestone. A wine befitting their eye-catching new château building.
    drinking window 2032 - 2070
    date of review 05/2023
    97-99/100
    Lisa Perrotti-Brown,
    The Wine Independent
    Composed of 98% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc, the 2022 Belair-Monange has a deep garnet-purple color. It needs considerable swirling to unlock scents of blackberry preserves, mulberries, and plum pudding, followed by suggestions of chocolate box, cinnamon toast, Indian spices, and candied violets with a hint of tilled soil. Full-bodied, rich, concentrated, and truly impactful, the palate is beautifully layered and so, so plush, finishing very long and opulent. Pure decadence.
    drinking window 2030 - 2063
    date of review 05/2023
    98-100/100
    Jane Anson,
    Inside Bordeaux
    Beautiful quality here, all about measured delivery of the character of the vintage, with a slab of limestone minerality that sits squarely in the mid palate, emphasising the juicy pomegranate, orange rind, blackberry and raspberry fruits that slowly inch around, Will take its time to fully reveal, this is a really slow build and a vintage that needs time from this kind of terroir, but it's got all it need to go the distance. 35hl/h yield. 26ha, harvest September 8 to 20, Edouard Moueix owner and director. Potential 100.
    drinking window 2032 - 2050
    date of review 05/2023

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    Specifications

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

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