Drink 2012-2025
-Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide No 7

This is a wine that I appear to have badly misjudged when tasting out of barrel. I had the bottled 2006 Bellevue several times, and it was consistently hard, austere, and lean. Generally I love what this great terroir, surrounded by such famous names as Angelus and the two Beausejours, can produce. Moreover, there is no doubting the genius of the two men responsible for this wine, Nicolas Thienpont and Stephane Derenoncourt. Nevertheless, I was surprised to see just how hard, austere, and angular this wine is. It is hard to find any charm or deep, concentrated, ripe fruit in this muscular, structured, forbiddingly tannic, and seemingly out of balance wine.
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Tasted privately with a negotiant. This smells slightly baked on the nose and lacking delineation and freshness. Very sweet and plumy, a little low in acidity, very modern but lacking some personality. Blueberry and cassis on the finish. Just rather predictable in the scheme of things, rather over-oaked. Tasted April 2007.