The sophomore 2009 Belair-Monange has been variable from bottle to bottle so I was taken aback at the impressive performance here. It has a very opulent bouquet with plush red fruit, patisserie, candied orange peel, fig and dates. This is very open and expressive, very gourmand in style and though atypical, it is very seductive. The palate is almost viscous on the entry with plush red fruit, a touch of black pepper and oregano, slightly medicinal in style but very persistent. Blind, I thought it might be Tertre-Rôteboeuf but it turned out not to be. Still, this is just a superb showing. - vinous.com, March 2019

This extraordinary terroir, now exploited by Edouard Moueix, the son of Christian, seems to be coming to life in a dramatic fashion. Never a hedonistic wine, but very intellectual, the 2009 suggests a liqueur of crushed rocks intermixed with black currants and black cherries. Still somewhat closed, medium to full-bodied, and impressive rather than seductive, this is a structured wine that needs to be forgotten for at least a decade, and then drunk over the following 30+ years. If readers are looking for the quintessential example of a terroir-dominated wine, this is Lesson 101 in terroir.

Robert Parker (Wine Advocate #199, Feb 2012)

Muted nose, a light combination of ripe fruit and minerality; very supple, lightly fleshy middleweight with a fine dry tannin; elegantly understated wine, very limestone plateau in character - gently, sweetly ripe in flavour, long and refined across the palate, a lovely combination of subtle limestone minerality and pure, transparent textured, delicate sweetness, and appetising freshness; long and fruit fragrant finish. A delightful, complete, stylish, lighter style of St Emilion. Classy, restrained, fine; intense and delicate at once. 2016-26+