Bellevue Mondotte 2015

St Emilion, Grand Cru

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6	75cl Bottle	Case 6	£575 per Case	Case	[Add to shopping basket]

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 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 01 April 2016
The 2015 Bellevue Mondotte remains the most tannic and brooding of Gérard Perse's three top Saint-Émilions. Inky blue/purplish fruit, graphite, menthol, licorice, plum and crème de cassis infuse the sumptuous Bellevue Mondotte, which is remarkably nuanced for such a potent wine. Despite its considerable intensity, the 2015 packs a real punch, especially in its searing tannins. Readers will have to be patient with this muscular wine. I can't wait to taste it in another handful of years. The blend is 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon from 50-year-old vines. Yields were 20 hectoliters per hectare. Score: 96 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2025-2045 01 February 2018
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 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, - 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 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 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 01 April 2016

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 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 01 April 2016

The 2015 Bellevue Mondotte remains the most tannic and brooding of Gérard Perse's three top Saint-Émilions. Inky blue/purplish fruit, graphite, menthol, licorice, plum and crème de cassis infuse the sumptuous Bellevue Mondotte, which is remarkably nuanced for such a potent wine. Despite its considerable intensity, the 2015 packs a real punch, especially in its searing tannins. Readers will have to be patient with this muscular wine. I can't wait to taste it in another handful of years. The blend is 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon from 50-year-old vines. Yields were 20 hectoliters per hectare.

Score: 96

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2025-2045 01 February 2018

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 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, - 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 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 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 01 April 2016

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