Chateau Belle-Vue

Château Belle-Vue is a Bordeaux wine producer located in the Haut Médoc. The estate was purchased by Vincent Mulliez in 2004, along with two other château, Château de Gironville and Château Bolaire. Mulliez gained recognition for making considerable improvements to the estates, and his wife Isabelle Mulliez took over management after his death in 2010.

The property spans close to 16 hectares (40 acres) and is planted to around 50 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 30 percent Merlot and 20 percent Petit Verdot. The vines are on average 32 years old.

Fruit for the château's Bordeaux blend is handpicked and sorted before a 20-day cold soak to extract additional color, flavor and tannin. The juice is fermented in stainless steel vats and goes through malolactic fermentation in barrel. The wine is then aged in 40 percent new French oak barrels for some 14 months. Annual production averages around 6000 cases.

Château Belle-Vue is occasionally confused with the larger and better-known Saint-Émilion estate, Château Bellevue, and shares its name with a Lebanese wine producer.