{"title":"Chateau Bellevue","description":"\u003cp\u003eChâteau Bellevue shows us a the beauty of the right side of Bordeaux: Merlot-based, smaller holdings, clay and limestone soils. If this sounds more Burgundian, you're right. But it’s also the way plenty of châteaux in St. Émilion—and even more so, its satellite villages—operate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBellevue is imported by Kermit Lynch, which tells us a bunch about the wine. It comes from classic terroir, of course—here, the clay-limestone layers that allow Merlot to produce something fascinating as well as compulsively drinkable. The farming is certified organic and the winemaking hands-off (natural fermentations in concrete and steel, aging in mostly old barrels).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/chateau-bellevue.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}