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Manage Subscriptions2010 Château Belle-Vue (Haut-Médoc)
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Médoc
- Haut-Médoc
Community Tasting Notes 69
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to_sty Likes this wine: 91 points
January 15, 2024 - This one was a great(er) bottle of the batch !
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WojteG Likes this wine: 93 points
November 3, 2023 - By Bordeaux measure this chateau is a very young one. The first vintage was 1996! The 15-hectare vineyard of Chateau Belle-Vue is planted to 50% CS, 35% Merlot, and 15% PV. A year ago I had 2015 and I liked it. This one is slightly better. It's not so muscular, thick and heavy like 2015. It's finessed, more delicate, sophisticated and much more complicated. Smell. If I were an expert it would be much easier to describe what's not in it. But I'm not...red cherry, mint, cedar, forest, flowers, plum, smoke.
What else? Tea (nice!), black currant, black cherry. Taste - it's a mix of "heavy and light" elements. Black cherry, blackberry, plum. On the other hand: vanilla, blueberry , licorice, mint.
Perfect acidity and ripe, grippy tannins. Lovely, pretty long finish with spice , red fruits and... chocolate, cocoa, coffee!
What I like more is how the texture goes from silky to velvety in the matter of the second. Interesting phenomenon 🤔
WS - 91
Decanter - 91
Vinous - 90
Jeff Leve - 89
WE - 89 -
ccarter5181 wrote: 90 points
June 25, 2023 - Better than last tasting 3 years ago. Good fruit flavors with some nice secondary elements. Well balanced. Elegant wine.
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Sagan99 Likes this wine: 85 points
December 28, 2022 - This less than expensive Bordeaux blend is uncomplicated and not complex. It's well made.
Deep, very dark ruby-purple(still!). Blackberry, oak, tobacco. Earthy. Leather. Herbal.
Still tannic after 3 days of air( Dec 28-31) as it was tea bag tannic in the first 2 hours.
Medium-full bodied, Dry, acidic.
Long finish more then 60 seconds.
Cabernet Sauvignon 55
Petit Verdot 20
Merlot 20
And something else...
14% abv
This wine is good. But it bugs me to have saved it in a cellar for a decade, without the transformation anticipated.
Will this get better? I think it stays on it's present path without improvement, except for exhibiting softer resolved tannins.
But, my sense is they this wine is what it is now.
Drink up, pop the cork early, decant it, leave it open for a couple of days at least.
PS - Drink The Rainbow! -
ProfByron Likes this wine: 90 points
September 14, 2022 - Quite classic in a bold but tight tannic vintage. Drinks well with food.
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By Panel Tasting
Haut-Médoc 2010, 10/4/2018 (link)(Château Belle-Vue, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Szabo, MS
11/5/2014 (link)(Château Belle Vue, Ac Haut Médoc red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
July/August 2013, IWC Issue #169 (link)(Belle-Vue Haut Medoc) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Chris Kissack
November 2012, 11/1/2012 (link)(Château Belle-Vue Haut-Médoc Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
9/21/2012 (link)(Ch Belle-Vue Haut-Médoc Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
3/31/2011 (link)(Ch Belle-Vue Haut-Médoc Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2010
- Type Red
- Producer Château Belle-Vue (Haut-Médoc)
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- SubRegion Médoc
- Appellation Haut-Médoc
- UPC Codes 071570015206, 088156019664, 3277034461207, 3284398006852, 3419466182606, 3700651900090, 400001915363, 400002542766, 649944130277, 714153133507, 8362447216201
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 6 (0%)
- In Cellars 945 (54%)
- Consumed 802 (46%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
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