{"product_id":"chateau-belair-monange-2018","title":"Château Bélair-Monange 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eChâteau Bélair-Monange 2018 is a Merlot-led Saint-Émilion from Bordeaux with plush dark fruit, limestone tension and polished oak detail for cellar and table. This is a grand Right Bank red with a serious truffle streak. Open it for roast lamb, game or a long dinner built around aged cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2018 Château Bélair-Monange comes from a limestone and clay setting on the Saint-Émilion plateau, where the château’s parcels sit close to the old village. Merlot leads the blend, with Cabernet Franc adding the darker floral edge that shows clearly in this vintage. The estate farms with sustainable certification, and the fruit in 2018 has the ripe plum and blueberry register that marks this bottle from the first pour. Clay gives the Merlot flesh and black cherry weight. Limestone leaves a firm line through the middle.\n\nIn the cellar, Château Bélair-Monange 2018 spent 18 months in French oak barrels. About 50 to 70 percent of those barrels were new. The wood shows as clove, incense and polished spice. The élevage has smoothed the tannins into a glossy frame. The wine remains dry and substantial at 14.5% alcohol. A final note of shaved black truffle sits under the warm cherry fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTasting Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedium to deep garnet in the glass, Château Bélair-Monange 2018 smells of warm plum and wild blueberry with Morello cherry skin, incense, violet and a little smoke behind it. Raspberry and black cherry fill the palate, then the wine moves into lilac and menthol, with damp earth and bitter chocolate adding depth near the back of the tongue. The texture is full and layered, with velvety tannins that feel carefully packed and fine grained across the dry 14.5% frame, and the fruit stays dark to the rim. The Cabernet Franc presence is easy to spot here, as the finish carries shaved black truffle and cracked pepper, plus a cool herbal lift beneath the ripe Merlot fruit for several minutes after swallowing. Drink from 2023 to 2033.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePour Château Bélair-Monange 2018 with côte de boeuf or ribeye seared hard in a cast iron pan and finished with thyme butter. Its plum and black cherry fruit wraps around browned fat after a few minutes in the glass, and the peppery Cabernet Franc edge catches the charred crust. For a Bordeaux table, choose entrecôte à la bordelaise with shallots and marrow, then let the wine's truffle note echo the sauce and the pan juices. Venison loin with juniper, duck breast with mushrooms or a slow braised lamb shoulder all suit the wine's velvety tannins and clove scented oak. At the end, serve aged Comté or mature Gouda; the salt and nutty rind pull out the 2018's blue fruit, cellar spice and damp earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProducer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChâteau Bélair-Monange is one of the Moueix family's most closely watched Saint-Émilion projects, and its identity is tied to limestone parcels above the medieval village and to the quiet grandeur of that ridge. The name Monange honours Anne-Adèle Monange, the mother of Jean-Pierre Moueix; the label carries a visible family marker each time the bottle is placed on the table or logged in the cellar. After the Moueix purchase in 2008, the team focused on parcel selection and cellar renovation, with patient work on the vineyard map showing in the polished tannins of this 2018 and in its measured oak imprint. The former Château Magdelaine vineyard was later folded into Bélair-Monange, adding more limestone plateau fruit to the estate and deepening its link with the upper part of Saint-Émilion and the old limestone quarries below the town. Moueix is also the name behind several Right Bank benchmarks, and Bélair-Monange sits inside a family culture that values texture, aromatic clarity and slow building detail through élevage in barrel and careful blending. In the glass, that shows through the estate's particular mix of ripe Merlot fruit, Cabernet Franc perfume and the truffle scented finish that stands out in the 2018 after several minutes of air in a large Bordeaux glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Château Bélair-Monange","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54254966997329,"sku":"PS-7730869993672","price":114.84,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0874\/0614\/9969\/files\/BELAIRMONANGE_92dd0a48-192b-4b7f-9e14-933a3ac6c9a3.png?v=1783455455","url":"https:\/\/bottlehero.com\/products\/chateau-belair-monange-2018","provider":"Bottle Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}