2001 Chateau Bellevue Mondotte (750ml)

Your Price: $145.00

Out of stock

Vintage: 2001
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Chateau Bellevue Mondotte
Vineyard:
Designation:
Appellation: St Emilion
Producer: Chateau Bellevue Mondotte
Varietal: Red Bordeaux Blend
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Sub-Region: Libournais

Tasting note: The newest baby of Gerard and Chantal Perse, this 5-acre vineyard (with vines averaging 45 years of age) was acquired in 2001. A blend of 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon (similar to Pavie-Decesse), it was cropped at a tiny 15 hectoliters per hectare, enjoyed a seven week maceration period, was aged in 100% new oak, the first six months on its lees, and bottled unfined and unfiltered after 24 months of aging. There are only 4,500 bottles of this elixir. While not as complex or delineated as Pavie or Pavie-Decesse, it is opulent, even voluptuous, with a heady perfume of ink, black fruits, truffles, and lead pencil shavings. Full-bodied, expansive, and velvety-textured, this huge, sweet, chewy St.-Emilion boasts great concentration and texture. (94pts. Robert Parker)

Tasted: Jun. 2004
Score: 94
Drink: 2004-22

Tasting note: Good bright ruby-red. Fresh, slightly medicinal aromas of black cherry, licorice and bitter chocolate. At once sweet and gripping, with spicy flavors of currant, plum and minerals. Finishes with substantial fine tannins and very good length. (90pts. Stephen Tanzer)

Tasted: May/Jun. 2004
Score: 90
Drink: N/A

Tasting note: First year and a hell of wine. Like Vintage Port. Perhaps slightly overdone, but impressive. Full-bodied, with loads of fruit and tannins. Mouthpuckering but outstanding. A modern interpretation of an ancient style of wine. Blockbuster. 90 percent Merlot, 5 percent Cabernet Franc and 5 percent Cabernet Sauvignon. Don't ask the price, which will be out of this world. (95-100pts. JS, Wine Spectator)

Tasted: 2002
Score: 95-100
Drink: N/A