Community Tasting Notes 15

• thomasjjackson wrote:

  October 7, 2023 - Found this bottle in the cellar when seeking wine for a deere sauce - decided to taste it and not to through it into the sauce; dark ruby color with orange shines and long legs - nose still fruty, berries and prunes - The taste is dominated by tannins, unfortunately the fruit is already too weak to provide a counterbalance - off to the sauce

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• Povilas Likes this wine: 91 points

  February 25, 2022 - Drinking window recommendations say otherwise. But if you like mature wine, it still has plenty of life! Doesn't look like tired wine at all. Funky nose of meaty black cherries, barnyard with some plums and chocolate is to my liking, but you have to like funky farmyard style. Body is on high acid and firm tannins, with ripe fruit and bitter bit stemmy finish. I find it value deal (paid 21 eur in 2022) nowadays. Great food wine, as sipping one during cold weather as well.

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• MWiking wrote: 92 points

  June 16, 2017 - Ett vin jag bara provat ungt tidigare och aldrig uppskattat men idag levererar det och jag gissade blint på Bordeaux. väldigt gott vin i alla fall.

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• Patrik H Likes this wine: 90 points

  June 15, 2017 - On the nose: Smoked meat, sweet dark fruit,
  On the palate: Dark berries with high acidity.
  Long finish

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• Tannatastic Likes this wine: 90 points

  July 5, 2015 - Completely mellowed, tannins have melted away leaving a wine that is really quite medium bodied.
  
  Quite perfumey, the nose (full of fruit, oak and age-related smells, touch of cigar or cedar etc) is much more expressive than the palate, as is perhaps to be expected, and I felt that despite perceived wisdom to the contrary, Madiran and this bottle in particular are not suited to rare roast beef. Indeed, the previous pairing with ceps was much more complementary. Nevertheless, the lovely acidity leaves a nice mouth-watering feel.
  
  Perhaps entering its twilight years, I would advise drinking up in the next couple of years, after which I suggest it'll become "interesting" rather than exciting.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Château Montus
• Varietal Tannat Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Southwest France
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Madiran

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• In Cellars 98 (48%)
• Consumed 105 (52%)

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