Tasting Notes

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Drink

ABV:

13 %

Notes

Named after Michel Ogier’s wife, the Belle Helene comes from old vines in the Cote Rosiers. The wine is aged in new oak barrels for 24 months and is only released as a separate bottling in the best vintages. Intense, big and brooding big more closed but deep, notesof ripe brambles, bilberries and mulberries with savoury and earth undertones of mineral, indergrowth, sap, pepper and coal dust with a linger hint of bramble liquer on the finish. This is complex, hugely intense and rich but beautifully composed and far from unwieldy, though it will reward several years ageing in bottle.

Critics score

Score:

100

Source:

Josh Raynolds, Vinous

Date:

01/2010

Notes

Inky ruby. Deep, pungent aromas of blackberry, blueberry, olive, tobacco and dried violet. This is yin to the Lancement’s yang-or Bonnes-Mares to Lancement’s Musigny, as Ogier would have it. Rich, fleshy and deep in dark fruit flavor, with late-arriving notes of smoked meat and licorice. More powerful and intense than the Lancement but I have a preference for that wine’s elegance and precision right now. I’d love to compare these two wines a decade down the road.

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