Château Belair-Monange St Emilion Grand Cru Premier Grand Cru Classé B 2016

This was not tasted during the Connoisseur Week, but is a request from a subscriber, so I am adding in at the same time from opening a bottle that I have at home. It’s an exceptional wine, still a little austere at this point, with everything in place to deliver joy over the next two to three decades. The salt twist of the limestone-dominant soils is on full display, alongside crushed raspberries and blackberries, cocoa bean, liqourice root, chamomile flowers and pomegranate, opening to show creamy cappuccino. This was the point that everything was starting to come together for Belair-Monange under the Moueix ownership.