Bellevue Mondotte 2003

Bellevue Mondotte 2003
$325.00

Region: Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux


Blend: 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon

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Chateau Bellevue Mondotte's 2003 vintage is a wine with a beautiful, intense ruby-red color that still retains its youthful character. The nose is complex and reveals notes of ripe black fruit jam, cocoa, and a smoky quality from aging in new barrels. On the palate, the wine is powerful and direct, with rich and ripe tannins that give it a full-bodied and smooth texture. The wine has a very long aftertaste, a sign of its great terroir, and will benefit from decanting. Overall, this is a well-crafted wine that is full of promise.


Robert Parker - 94+ Points

"Even in a vintage such as 2003 there are wines that are youthful, unevolved and still in need of bottle age. The 2003 Bellevue Mondotte is one of those wines. From a tiny (5 acres) estate owned by Gerard Perse, this blend of 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits youthful aromas of blue and black fruits, chalk dust, lead pencil shavings and Christmas fruitcake. Full, ripe and moderately tannic, it requires another 3-5 years of bottle age and could turn out to be one of the longest-lived wines of the vintage, lasting another 25-30 years."


Antonio Galloni - 90+ Points

"Deep ruby-red. Full-blown aromas of mocha, truffle and nutty oak, with an exotic suggestion of apricot. Fat, sweet and fine-grained; impressively rich and deep but could use a bit more mid-palate lift. Today I don't find much primary fruit, but then this wine may still be in shock from the recent bottling in February. Finishes with dusty, somewhat tough tannins."

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