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2016 Chateau Belair-Monange Premier Grand Cru Classe B, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
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Start Your Wine Collection with 2016 Chateau Belair-Monange Premier Grand Cru Classe B, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
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OverachieverClassifications schmassifications. This wine overachieves relative to its class.
6.5% of All Producers of Fine Wine
Limited ProductionLess than 500 cases made per year. Good luck finding this at your local wine store.
7.5% of All Fine Wine
Top VintageBehold! One of the finest vintages of this wine ever made.
61.1% of Vinovest WinesWhy We're Buying
Is this the best Château Bélair-Monange to date? Wine critic Neal Martin thinks so. He lauded the red blend (92 merlot and 8 cabernet franc) as “an accomplished, riveting Saint-Émilion” en route to a 97-point rating. Martin isn’t alone. Lisa Perrotti-Brown and Jane Anson gave it identical scores, while James Suckling awarded 2016 Château Bélair-Monange a 99-point rating. Get ready to roll out the red carpet. From the beginning, 2016 Château Bélair-Monange parades around like a movie star. Dazzling aromas of red and black fruits, mocha, wildflowers, tea, cinnamon, tobacco, and camphor captivate the senses while juicy tannins lend balance to the blend. Meanwhile, the limestone of Saint-Émilion adds lift to a finish that resonances for eons. Hold this genie in the bottle for upward of four decades. The Final Sip: The 2016 Château Bélair-Monange might be this red blend’s finest iteration and a reason why the estate ranks among the top wineries of Saint-Émilion.
Critics Scores
Vinous
The 2016 Bélair-Monange is easily the most closed of all of J-P Moueixs wines when I taste them together. It is stubbornly tight in the glass and then coquettishly unfurls mineral-rich red berry fruit mixed with rose petals; the perfume is captivating. The palate is well balanced, with velvety tannin and perfectly judged acidity, and very, very harmonious. More and more black fruit seems to join the chorus line toward the finish, which fans out gloriously, demonstrating superlative persistence. The best Bélair-Monange to date, and an accomplished, riveting Saint-Émilion.
James Suckling
Incredibly perfumed aromas of roses and violets, as well as blue fruit and lavender. Full-bodied and powerful, yet so full of finesse and vibrance. The height of elegance! Such depth of chalk and dark berries. It goes on for minutes. Drink after 2025. März 2020
Wine Enthusiast
After considerable replantation, this 57-acre estate now shows how good it can be. This wine has style as well as concentration and glorious black fruits that are developing into a rich wine. Drink from 2025. *Cellar Selection*
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
A blend of 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc, the medium to deep garnet-purple colored 2016 Belair Monange comes strutting out of the glass like a total rock star with gregarious red cherries, blackberries and warm plums scents plus hints of lavender, rose hip tea, powdered cinnamon, cigar box and camphor. Medium-bodied, it completely fills the palate with vibrant red and black fruit layers, framed by a firm backbone of grainy tannins and wonderful freshness, finishing long and perfumed.
Wine Spectator
The fruit—plum, fig and black currant—is decidedly dark in profile now, but it is very, very pure, with sleek and racy definition throughout. There's a swath of tobacco and alluring toast as well, but this red is defined on its back end by a bolt of chalky minerality that is buried deep and should emerge fully with extended cellaring.
Jeb Dunnuck
The 2016 Château Belair-Monange (92 Merlot and 8 Cabernet Franc) comes from limestone soils on both the upper plateau and the hillside slope just outside of the village of Saint Emilion. This deep, saturated purple-hued effort offers a more primordial style in its ripe black fruits, toasty oak, espresso bean, and spring flower-scented aromas and flavors. With full-bodied richness, solid acidity, terrific purity, and rock-solid underlying structure, this beautiful Saint Emilion needs 4-5 years of bottle age and will keep for two decades. It opens up nicely with time in the glass, so if you feel like drinking a bottle soon, give it a healthy decant. 96+ points