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Bellevue Mondotte 2015

St Emilion, Grand Cru

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Tasting Notes

Amazing dark-berry and black-cherry aromas with hints of black truffles and oyster shell. Full-bodied, super layered and rich with amazing density and texture. Like the richest velvet. Last for minutes. Drink in 2024.

Score: 99 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Date: 02 February 2018

This has a focus and intensity that I haven’t seen before. I goes wide in the palate and then compresses with great precision and beauty. Full and excellent. So great. Best I ever had from here.

Score: 98 - 99 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Date: 01 April 2016

Tasted as a barrel sample, the 2015 Bellevue Mondotte is ripe, incredibly sexy 2015 based on 90% Merlot and 5% each of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. This opaque, glass staining effort offers terrific notes of cassis, blackberry liqueur, and smoked herbs, as well as lots of minerals and floral character, full body, and an elegant, seamless texture that keeps on going. This gorgeous, layered, multi-dimensional beauty will benefit from short-term cellaring and keep for 2-3 decades.

Score: 95 - 97 Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Maturity: 2022-2052 Date: 30 November 2017

This property was bought by Gerard Perse of Pavie in 2001. A tiny vineyard of just 2 hectares situated on St Emilion's limestone plateau, with one of the lowest yields to be found in Bordeaux - often just 20hl/ha. Thick and dark in colour with unctuous black fruit and minerals and a hint of espresso. Huge concentration with very voluptuous fruit and swathes of ripe glossy tannin.

Score: 94 - 96 Albany Vintners, - Date: 27 April 2016

A lush, modern style, with plum sauce and raspberry påte de fruit flavors backed by a broad swath of melted red licorice and sweet spice notes. Features the caressing feel of the vintage as well.

Score: 91 - 94 James Molesworth, Wine Spectator Date: 01 April 2016

The 2015 Bellevue Mondotte is the one wine from Gérard Perse that tends to leave me cold. This year it is a blend of 90% Merlot with 5% each of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, matured entirely in new oak. It has a very powerful and intense bouquet with sweet ripe blueberry, boysenberry jam and honey-like aromas that almost knock you sideways. The palate is medium-bodied with sweet ripe tannin, not as tannic or as aggressive as I have occasionally discerned this wine, a little gentler and caressing towards the velvety smooth finish that just needs a little more personality to come through. It is always a brute out of barrel, but tends to mellow with bottle age, so don't even think about approaching this young. While it is undoubtedly surpassed by the 2015 Pavie, I am fascinated to see how this shows with age and who knows, maybe I will be proved wrong.

Score: 91 - 93 Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2023-2045 Date: 01 April 2016

The 2015 Bellevue Mondotte is, as always, the most massive and virile of the Perse wines. A vertical spine of tannin gives the Bellevue Mondotte its distinctive personality, even if the richness of the vintage has softened some of the contours just a bit. A host of dark, balsamic-inflected notes hit the palate first. Black cherry, plum, crème de cassis, smoke and grilled herbs are pushed forward. Intense veins of chalk salinity extend the mid-palate into the long, beautifully articulated finish. Bellevue Mondotte tends to get lost in the Perse lineup, perhaps because this is the family's smallest site, but it is superb. The blend is 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon from 50 year-old vines. Yields were 20 hectoliters per hectare.

Score: 93 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Date: 01 April 2016

Gérard Perse's 2 ha (5 acre) property on well-drained limestone. Blackish crimson. Sweet black fruits on the nose. Very round. The fruit masks the tannin completely. Limestone stoniness on the end. 14.72%

Score: 17 Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2024-2040 Date: 01 April 2016