Belair was renamed Bélair-Monange in honor of the grandmother of Christian Moueix, the entire owner of the premises since 2008. His son Édouard took up residence in this premier grand cru Classé B, confirmed in 2012. The young manager sales representative of Maison J.-P. Moueix supervised the colossal project to consolidate the troglodyte caves, which lasted three years. This work will allow access to the plateau, which has become too unstable for mechanical machinery, and thus complete the uprooting and replanting of a vineyard finely analyzed by the agronomic team at Moueix, which manages 25 ha in Saint-Émilion and 75 ha in Pomerol, excluding Pétrus. The south coast, and especially the south-east (6.5 ha), has played a predominant role in the relaunch of great wine since 2009. The vineyard of Château Magdelaine is now part of Bélair-Monange. Currently only 12 ha are in production, out of 25 potential. A second star came to salute the high quality of the latest vintages, knowing that the cru has the potential to aim for the absolute top of the Saint-Emilion hierarchy.
The wines: the latest vintages express all the distinction of this fabulous combination of terroirs. 2016 is endowed with phenomenal vigor and breed, it is a wine that can only grow. The brightness of the fruit, always very close to the mineral, evokes the wild pig and raspberry. 2015 at the end of aging shows great authority in the way it takes possession of the mouth of the taster. This long bundle of solar muscles unfolds with admirable purity. The aromatic complexity comes slowly, as the concentration is important. The 2014 expresses itself in finesse, in tension, with a highly civilized limestone firmness. The fruit seems sculpted, stretched. This admirable formal classicism sums up all that could be more racy in a Saint-Emilion on the coast and on the plateau.