| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
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2000 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/20/2024 - Tree512 wrote: 95 pointsMuch more ready than the last bottle. Medium bodied and extremely long and complete. Very much like 1989 at the same point in its evolution. Nice. |
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2003 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/20/2024 - llink wrote: 96 pointsDecanted for several hours. Dark black/purple color, this looks like a young wine. The nose is pungent and lusty with cedar, blackberry, saddle leather and some spice. Young palate, deep and showing dark, tannic fruit that is still tight and primary. The texture is rich and saline infused with a decent amount of grip and tension. |
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2015 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/20/2024 - Brian of Mull Likes this wine: 95 pointsComing back to this after 4 years for my 2nd bottle. Opened for 3 hours. Color is deep garnet. On the nose: Plum, cassis, espresso and leather. On the palate: Plum, dark chocolate, cassis, leather, sour cherry, a bit of baking spices and chalky tannins. Silky mouthfeel and Long finish. Just excellent Bordeaux. Still young at 8 years. A lot of life here. |
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1989 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/20/2024 - jjones Likes this wine: 95 pointsStill needs a minimum of 2 hours to begin to open. Wonderfully complex nose of cedar, red current, earth, meat and leather. In the mouth, correspondingly complex. Mix of red and dark fruit. Tannins present, but soft. Long beautiful finish. |
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2009 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/19/2024 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: NRThis seems to have closed up some since another bottle I had a year ago. Serious concentration but all black fruit and wood. Maybe in 5-10 years this will be awesome. |
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2005 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/17/2022 - tropa56 Likes this wine: 96 pointsI wish I didn't open this. Great wine that will be a real treat but needs years or a long decant. I would prefer the years. Opened at Easter dinner when wine was really flowing. Followed a 2012 Ciacci Piccolomini Santa Caterina and 2 bottles of 2006 Sassicaia. Wasn't time to decant. Wine was really reticent showing some intense black fruits, tobacco, flowers, licorice, and gravel. Will be a stunner but honestly, I won't open my other bottle until it's in it's twenties. And even then, I will make sure I can decant if necessary. This would be my advice unless you have enough bottles and are dying to try. This wine is massive and intensely structured. 6 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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1996 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/22/2022 - tropa56 Likes this wine: 95 pointsPnP. Great wine. Drank before a 2006 Masseto, and while the Masseto was definitely the better wine, I actually preferred this. Drank perfectly. I would say it's definitely in its prime drinking window. A bit on the lighter side which is typical of the vintage. I love 96 BDX. One of my favorite vintages. The Montrose was classic aged Bordeaux. Stoney St. Estephe with pretty fruit, and beautiful earthiness. Smooth tannins. If you come across a bottle it's definitely worth it. |
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1995 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/14/2024 - RockinCabs wrote: 91 pointsThis was quite tight and closed initially, but opened well give blackberry, black plum, mineral and leather. Cedar, moss and soil note and a bit of brett that left this bottle a slightly smudged. |
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2000 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/18/2024 - liber wrote: 91 points1st of 36, opened 90 minutes then decanted 90 minutes, perfect cork and level - very dark ruby, quite transparent, youthful robe; more black plum than cassis, some mineral and smoke, quite dense and unlayered presenting more as a simple right banker; full, round and caressing, ok length, persistence and concentration, sweetish mid palate with hint of tannic structure on exit, but as yet too monolithic and simple and without the breed and layering I'd have expected, so I'm left confused, could go either way though I suspect it needs more time to come together properly so long as there really is proper tannic underpinning which I believe was just detectable, if so much upside, 30+ years. But for now a tentative F (17.5). 6 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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1995 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/18/2024 - Stefan75 Likes this wine: 94 pointsFrom Mag, double decanted in the afternoon, cork fully soaked, nice nose but muted taste at opening, fantastic showing at dinner with lamb racks, fully marure but with reserves for a few years left, great balance, old school and only 12,5% alcohol. Exceeded expectations! |
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2009 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/13/2024 - MarcVH wrote: 98 pointsTasted next to Pontet Canet 2009 and Pavie 2009 this Montrose was simply brilliant. Still young but already so good. This will become a "perfect" wine in 10-15 years from now but it is already Champions League level. Incredible nose of dark forest fruits, graphite, vanilla and what a smoothness and silk in terms of mouthfeel. Great length and complexity. Big wine. |
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2016 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/6/2024 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 92 pointsI opened this in the early afternoon and followed over the day into dinner. I drink very little Bordeaux and almost none this young anymore so I lack a little context for what I was drinking. I grabbed a Montrose because I’ve been intrigued by what folks have said about the wine in recent vintages. Well, I was reminded what the word “backward” means wrt wine. It did open up over the course of the evening and worked pretty well with a ribeye. What struck me is how buried the fruit was by the structure, loads of tannin but fairly fine grained and plenty of acidity. It was really compact and unyielding the entire time, more of an intellectual exercise rather than a pleasurable one. There were moments when the fruit would linger on the palate or a note of graphite would really come to the fore and there was good mineral twang. I think folks are right, that this will be a really good wine in time. The question for me is do I want to dedicate cellar space to it or is it a wine that I can pick up in 10 years for nominally the same price. Maybe I owe it to my 2016 daughter to salt away a case. IDK, even after spending a day with this wine and discussing it with other wine people I don't feel any closer to having a great read on it. 6 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (4) |
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2004 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/15/2024 - Paul D wrote: 92 pointsJonathan’s 2004 Bordeaux (Hawksmoor, Guildhall, London): This again has lovely, pure, almost noble blackcurrant fruit on the nose, as sense of smoke and mineral too, cedar. Quite youthful. Medium/full bodied, dark fruit, cedary, fresh acids with some grippy tannin still on the good length finish. Excellent. |
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2004 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/15/2024 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 93 pointsBordeaux 2004 20 years on Part 2 (Hawksmoor Guildhall): Spot on, a far better bottle than in March, less austere and more pliant, without the hint of greenness that some thought was present. This is nicely open, with rich and deep seam of dark blue cool fruit, very moreish indeed. After the last bottle I wasn't sure this could ever deliver but this is emminently drinkable whilst staying on the side of straight-laced. Delicious. My #2 WOTN. |
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2004 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/15/2024 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 93 pointsJonathan's 2004 Bordeaux Check In (Hawksmoor Guildhall, London, UK): Smoky, rich mulled wine syrup nose with cinnamon and star anise. With air some blueberry coulis some salty caper. With air hints of Madeira treacle cake and suggestion of wilted tart, sand under ripe red fruits that reminds me of rhubarb. Classy and by a whisker my wine of the night. |
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2003 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/11/2024 - llink wrote: 96 pointsDecanted for several hours. Served blind in a flight of 9 cabernet based wines from the 2003 vintage. My #1 wine and the groups consensus #2 wine. The nose shows like a classic left bank Bordeaux and features coffee grinds, saddle leather, cedar and cassis. The palate is deep and mouth filling with layers of ripe fruit and velvety tannins. Long finish. Not at all overdone or roasted, this is a classic ripe year Bordeaux with a long life ahead of it. 4 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (5) |
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2003 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/14/2024 - winelover1808 Likes this wine: 94 pointshad many weeks ago; side by side with a 2003 Cos - both were fantastic. I admittedly recall liking both of them a lot but am vague on the exact differences. but for a maligned vinatage for being too hot, i recall we thought they were both superb |
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2012 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/13/2024 - Zweder Likes this wine: 93 pointsAn easy afternoon with close friends (@ PdV): This bottle was given some more air time compared the one of my previous note and it was bought in another shop. The bouquet showed dark berries, smoke and was a bit rustic. On the palate dark fruits, still very reticent and youthful, firm acidity and tannin. My guess is that the wine will develop for the better over the next 10 - 15+ years. 93++ |
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2012 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/12/2024 - The_Cat wrote: 93 pointsDeep purple garnet red rims. Intense seducing blackberry blueberry elderberry some notes of pencil and leather. Full bodied with perfect balanced tannins and excellent length |
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2012 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/13/2024 - Zweder Likes this wine: 93 pointsAn easy afternoon with close friends (@ PdV): Dark berries and smoke in the bouquet. On the palate juicy dark berries, firm but good acidity and tannin and some bitterness, a slight touch of sweetness. Beautiful wine but still quite locked. (Later in the line-up of today the same wine again from another source; both wines tasted blind.) 93+ |
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2014 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/13/2024 - Zweder Likes this wine: 94 pointsAn easy afternoon with close friends (@ PdV): Deep bouquet with dark berries, cassis, licorice, dark chocolate and a pleasant dose of oak. Same on the palate, firm acidity and tannin, a slight touch of sweetness. Beautiful wine already, but still too young. Will show more elegance and finesse around 2030 I suppose. For now 93 – 94+ |
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2019 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/10/2024 - SARED wrote: 94 pointsA different showing here. Slow-O’d from night before with an added shake for air in the bottle. Served too cool a temp. Here the wine was taut, red currants, stoney red fruits and generally cooler fruits with good acids. I opened this for a Napa drinker and the wine was not Napa esque… needed food. air and temp clearly played a role here versus prior showings. Based on today, I would say give this 10 years to start showing more complexity as that youthful fruit was more easily masked by cool (albeit too cool) temps this go around. |
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2009 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/10/2024 - garymouton Likes this wine: NRFour hour double decant, but this wine was still very tight for me. I was struggling to get primary fruit here let alone some of the secondary characteristics some have described. It certainly has all the structure to be a great wine, but I am not touching another bottle until 2030 at the earliest. Did not have with food, which might have softened the tannins. Bought on release. 7 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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1989 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/8/2024 - Victor Horsley wrote: NRNeeds a lot of time to open. |
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2010 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/6/2024 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 94 pointsHad at Anhelo before the Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent) standup comedy event in Phoenix. This wine was in the flight with the NSG de l’Arlot & Vice Versa Spinning Plates. The diversity of the three wines in & of itself was fabulous to experience not to mention when paired with the dry aged prime beef Wellington which was an absolute knockout! This wine has decades but already fantastic! |
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