WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 899; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2001 which is 892. The average score for Château Bellevue is 886, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Bellevue they use words like Sweet, Cassis, Concentrated, Ripe, Fruit, Tannic, Full, Pure, Smoke, Purple, Rocks, Fruits, Black, Cherry, Crushed. The 2001 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2001 but no other wine from Château Bellevue: Restrained, Finesse, Earth, Herbs, Austere, Angular, Minerals, Fleshy, Plummy, Cream. The wine has been ready to drink for 10 years (since 2006) and has been past its best for 1 (since 2015). It normally takes wines from Château Bellevue around 7 years to be ready to start drinking, and 13 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Palmer 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Cantemerle 2011, Château Labégorce 2010.
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Prices & Deals for Château Bellevue 2001
Date |
Currency |
Price |
2016-01-26 |
gbp |
20 |