Beautifully mature and fully in its prime drink window, the 2001 Château Bellevue offers a textbook bouquet of ripe red and black cherries, leafy herbs, underbrush, truffly earth, and cedar. This carries to a seamless, medium-bodied, elegant Saint-Emilion with integrated, supple tannins, no hard edges, and a gorgeous finish. It's drinking at point yet is going to evolve gracefully for another 7-8 years, if not a decade, from well-stored bottles.