Darker blue fruits, damp earth, and tobacco notes all emerge from the 2021 Château Belgrave, a pretty, elegant, medium-bodied barrel sample that brings solid mid-palate depth, quality tannins, and a good finish.
Jeb Dunnuck (June 2022)Score: 87-89/122
A nicely polished red with currants, walnuts and hints of fresh herbs. Medium body. Fine tannins. Fresh and refined.
James Suckling (May 2022)Score: 91-92/100
The 2021 Belgrave is a tasty Haut-Médoc. Black cherry, gravel, graphite, cloves and licorice infuse the 2021 with quite a bit of complexity. This potent, virile Haut-Médoc should blossom nicely with a few years in bottle. I very much like the vibrancy here.
Antonio Galloni, Vinous (May 2022)Score: 89-91/100Drink 2026-2036
The 2021 Belgrave was picked from September 27 to October 7 and contains a little more Cabernet this year; it was aged in 29% new oak. The nose takes its time opening, revealing blackberry, touches of black pepper and menthol, all fresh and vibrant and the oak nicely integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with insistent grip on the entry. Quite Saint-Julien in style (no surprise given its vines border the appellation), with fine structure and salinity on the finish. Maybe just a little short, but I admire its classicism and sapidity.
Neal Martin, Vinous (May 2022)Score: 89-91/100Drink 2026-2042
Dark currants, savory herbs and espresso fill your nose and palate. Medium-bodied, forward, round and fruity with a dash of chocolate in the plummy endnote, you can enjoy this with pleasure on release.
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider (May 2022)Score: 89-91/100Drink 2023-2037
Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the 2021 Belgrave leaps with notes of redcurrant, black raspberries, and wild thyme plus hints of pencil lead and charcoal. Medium-bodied, the palate has herb-tinged black fruits with a light chewiness to the texture and a savory finish.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, The Wine Independent (May 2022)Score: 81-83/100Drink 2025-2031
Super aromatic on the nose, really quite expressive and bursting out of the glass with bramble tones, black pepper and perfumed black fruits. Soft and appealing on the palate, this has such an immediate charm, partly because of the ripe fruits that have a really juicy, chewy sweetness to them and partly because of the dry, bitter, spice-edged tannins that give angles to the fruit and depth to the palate but also that lick of wet stone and graphite minerality. This is good stuff, I love the expression and the attitude here, it's a 'look at me' wine with nice presentation, power, persistence and frame.
Georgie Hindle, Decanter (April 2022)Score: 92/100Drink 2026-2035
Powerful, spicy black fruits on the nose, starts off enjoyably with well-worked tannins and bright raspberry leaf and blackberry notes, but struggles to maintain balance against hard tannins on the finish. Should soften further over ageing. Tasted three times. 29% new oak.
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux (April 2022)Score: 86/100Drink 2025-2038
Bordeaux / France
En Primeur
2023-2042