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Chateau Bel Air Bordeaux Superieur
Winery: Chateau Bel Air Year: 2001 Type: Red Country: France (Bordeaux) Grape Variety: 50% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc Note: Alcohol: 12% Mevushal: Yes Date Reviewed: 10/10/06
Color: 1.5 (of 3) Note: It's a decent garnet color but the wine is thin and cloudy.
Aroma: 4.5 (of 7) Note: A strong blackberry scent with earthy undertones but plagued by a medicine scent of alcohol. Wine shouldn't smell like cough syrup!
Taste: 5.5 (of 10) Note: For all the people who think all French wines are good, here's where you're proven wrong. This is a bad French wine! It tries, it really does. But it falls short in so many ways. It's quite dry with medium to heavy tannins and a dominant blackberry flavor. There's some black cherry in the background as well. But it's a thin flavor with no real body and a sour aftertaste. It's hard to believe this is what the winemakers had in mind.
Total: 11.5 (of 20)
Food: I had this with delicious sweet and sour meatballs my wife, Linda, makes over white rice. It's a fantastic meatball recipe sadly paired today with a very dissappointing wine. I hope there are more meatballs!
Compare to : Chateau Le Breuil Renaissance Medoc Bordeaux Barons de Rothschild Haut Medoc Bordeaux Chateau Camplay Bordeaux Superieur Domaine du Castel Petit Castel
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