Fine Wine > Red > Bordeaux > St. Emilion > 90-92 Pts > $100-200

Cellar/Tasting Notes
A blend of 62% Merlot and 38% Cabernet Franc, La Confession possesses impressive density and richness with soft, smooth tannins. It should drink well for a decade.

Cellar/Tasting Notes
"A marvelous effort from proprietress Christine Valette. Displaying a saturated blue/purple hue, a beautiful perfume and seemless integration of acidity, tannin, and alcohol, and a multilayered palate."

Cellar/Tasting Notes
RP: "This terroir is superbly situated between Beausejour Duffau and Beau-Sejour-Becot, with Angelus within shouting distance. Bellevue has been managed by Stephane Derenoncourt and Nicolas Thienpont since 2000, and when St.-Emilion does its next new classification (in 2016), I would not be..

Cellar/Tasting Notes
"The dense plum/purple-colored 1999 offers up aromas of truffles, underbrush, espresso, black cherries, and roasted meats. The wine is powerful and muscular with high extract and mouth-searing tannin, it is an atypically backward effort for the vintage. Patient connoisseurs who admire wines with..