2025, Château Belair-Monange, SAINT-ÉMILION, 1er Grand Cru Classé2025 is 98% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc. Top wine to watch. Chteau Belair Monange is now owned by the Moueix family, and has had a new name since the 2008 vintage. This is one of the best vineyards in Saint Emilion and in the 1850s was rated as the appellation's leading property. It is perched at the top of the slope right next to Ausone, near Canon and above Anglus. Aromatic, sculpted and wonderfully precise, Blair Monange marries power with finesse.

Ripeness is spot on

Drinking window 2025 - 2038 95/100 Matt Walls

The palate is well balanced and incorporates the 75% whole clusters well

Bordeaux Blend: 100% Merlot

raspberries and black cherries

potent in the weight and tannic frame - chalky

translucence - characteristics that are hard to capture in a solar vintage

New owner Jean-Hubert Moitry as of this vintage

or even later given the great ageing potential of this wine

A refined bouquet

This is another stellar showing from Larcis Ducasse

Ripe tannins