Château Bellefont-Belcier 2023
St-Emilion Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£207.00
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Arriving: Spring 2026
| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
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Critic scores
93-95 RP, 89-91 NM, 92-94 AG, 96-97 JS, 94 JA, 92-94 JD
Critic reviews
"The 2023 Bellefont Belcier demonstrates this property's continuing renaissance, exhibiting more density and seriousness as the team starts to get the best out of their holdings on the plateau of Saint-Émilion overlooking the slopes that surround the château. Offering up aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with hints of burning embers and iris, it's medium to full-bodied, supple and fleshy, with a layered core of fruit, powdery structuring tannins and a long, penetrating finish."
William Kelley, April 2024, RobertParker.com
"The 2023 Bellefont-Belcier has a perfumed bouquet with dark cherry, boysenberry and light violet aromas, gathering pace as it opens in the glass. There’s fine delineation, leaning slightly toward the opulent side. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly grainy tannins and just a bit of rigidity on the mid-palate. Wood tannins impede a little toward the finish. This is not bad, but it will require a prudent élevage."
Neal Martin, April 2024, Vinous.com
"The 2023 Bellefont-Belcier is dark, pliant and super-expressive. This heady, explosive wine is packed with dark fruit, gravel, incense and licorice. Pencil shavings, lavender and chocolate linger on the potent, resonant finish. Interestingly, Bellefont-Belcier was once quite opulent. Consulting winemaker Thomas Duclos dialed it back starting with the 2018 vintage but now seems to be searching for more of a middle ground. Tasted three times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2024, Vinous.com
"This well-defined and sophisticated wine shows a gorgeous center-palate of near perfectly ripe fruit. Lots of dark berries and minerals with some pine, while the texture is full and compact with layers of well-integrated, fine tannins. The finish is seamless. Just a hint of salt at the end of the pretty fruit. 72% merlot, 18% cabernet franc and 10% cabernet sauvignon."
James Suckling, April 2024, JamesSuckling.com
William Kelley, April 2024, RobertParker.com
"The 2023 Bellefont-Belcier has a perfumed bouquet with dark cherry, boysenberry and light violet aromas, gathering pace as it opens in the glass. There’s fine delineation, leaning slightly toward the opulent side. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly grainy tannins and just a bit of rigidity on the mid-palate. Wood tannins impede a little toward the finish. This is not bad, but it will require a prudent élevage."
Neal Martin, April 2024, Vinous.com
"The 2023 Bellefont-Belcier is dark, pliant and super-expressive. This heady, explosive wine is packed with dark fruit, gravel, incense and licorice. Pencil shavings, lavender and chocolate linger on the potent, resonant finish. Interestingly, Bellefont-Belcier was once quite opulent. Consulting winemaker Thomas Duclos dialed it back starting with the 2018 vintage but now seems to be searching for more of a middle ground. Tasted three times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2024, Vinous.com
"This well-defined and sophisticated wine shows a gorgeous center-palate of near perfectly ripe fruit. Lots of dark berries and minerals with some pine, while the texture is full and compact with layers of well-integrated, fine tannins. The finish is seamless. Just a hint of salt at the end of the pretty fruit. 72% merlot, 18% cabernet franc and 10% cabernet sauvignon."
James Suckling, April 2024, JamesSuckling.com
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