Tasting Notes
Vinous 93
The 2015 Bellevue has a pleasant, slightly diffuse bouquet with brambly black fruit, sage and cedar aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with raspberry pastille, graphite and cedar notes, more masculine than expected with fine delineation on the finish. Perhaps this is a little more forward than I anticipated after tasting from bottle 12 months ago, but it remains a well crafted Bellevue. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.
Anticipated maturity: 2020-2035
Wine Advocate 94+
"Produced from 100% Merlot, the 2015 Bellevue gives up a deep garnet-purple color and quite an earthy/savory nose with tilled soil, charcuterie and roasted nut notions over a core of plum preserves, black forest cake and licorice plus hints of tar and bay leaves. Medium to full-bodied with firm, rounded tannins and vibrant fruit expression lifted by a lovely line of freshness, it finishes on a minerally note."
Anticipated maturity: 2021-2039
JancisRobinson.com 15.5
100% Merlot.Deeper colour than the 2016. Quite a heady nose with full ripeness on the front palate followed by rather rasping tannins there in abundance. Oak a little less seasoned than in some examples?
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2040
