The estate’s history stretches back centuries, with Château Bélair already renowned for its wines by 1691. Perched at the highest point of Saint-Émilion’s celebrated limestone plateau, the vineyard was named a Premier Grand Cru Classé in the appellation’s original 1955 classification. The property was acquired by the Moueix family in 2008 and renamed Bélair-Monange in honour of Anne-Adèle Monange, the mother of Jean-Pierre Moueix. Today, its contiguous vineyard encompasses some of Saint-Émilion’s finest limestone and clay terroirs, lending the wine its signature combination of richness, freshness and enduring elegance.

Predominantly Merlot with a small proportion of Cabernet Franc, it unfolds with sumptuous layers of black cherry, ripe plum and wild raspberry, framed by notes of violet, graphite, crushed stone, cocoa and delicately perfumed spice. The palate is powerful yet beautifully controlled, with polished tannins, vibrant freshness and a pronounced mineral tension that carries the wine toward an exceptionally long, graceful finish.

“Very intense blackberries, black olives, blueberries and dried flowers. Stony minerality. Even some pine. Full-bodied with superb depth of fruit and ultra fine tannins that are intense and polished. The finish is so long and delivers so much flavor, from wet earth to blackberry again. Seamless palate. Try after 2026.”
99 points, James Suckling, January 2021

“Made from 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the medium to deep garnet-purple colored 2018 Belair Monange rolls effortlessly out of the glass with gregarious scents of black cherry preserves, stewed plums and boysenberries, plus suggestions of Indian spices, rose oil, Ceylon tea and garrigue, with a waft of tilled soil. The rich, seductive, full-bodied palate is laden with black fruit preserves and exotic spice layers, framed by velvety tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and fragrant. Wonderfully hedonic and conceivably drinkable now, give it 4-5 years in the cellar to allow the earthy/savory nuances to fully emerge from within the fruit and drink it over the next 25 years or more. Drinking Window: 2025-2050”
98 points, Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (Robert Parker), March 2021