Community Tasting Notes 132

• Grinner wrote: 93 points

  March 2, 2024 - Winey Weekend With the Woodwards in Woodinville!!; 2/29/2024-3/2/2024 (Where else?): A cellar dive of sorts at the end of night. Quick decant and this just speaks to its origins! An austere Claret from that kinda year. But if you love BDX as much as we do, you'll get it. Creme de cassis, blackberry, graphite, earth/stones, cedar, and spice. Next in 4 years!

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• VoteferPedro wrote:

  February 28, 2024 - really needs an hour or two air
  cherries and a sense of depth
  best on Day2

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• nywine68 wrote: 94 points

  January 24, 2024 - PnP. Once this opened up a bit in the glass, it was just singing. Cassis and brambly blackberries with lots of graphite, earth, smoke and complexity. The fruit took a little while to emerge from the acidic curtain around it but eventually found its balance. The tannins are quite assertive and a bit drying. This is a "serious" wine rather than a fruit-driven one. Very well done in an under-the-radar vintage.

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• sterben Likes this wine:

  January 1, 2024 - Good fill. Decanted 5 hours before first tasting, reintroduced to bottle at the end of the evening and tried the following day. Cassis, some forest floor, great length, high acidity, good structure with permissible tannins, very good, better day 2. Decant if consumed today, many years left alive.

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• StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 96 points

  December 31, 2023 - årets julemiddag:​
  
  A magical Xmas Dinner. Baby Jesus got lost in Santa's beard. We praised Thor and Odin for this amazing wine.
  
  Lineup for the Christmas dinner of 2023:
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  2008 Château Montrose
  1967 Bertani Recioto della Valpolicella Classico Superiore Amarone
  1934 Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey
  1853 Whitwhams Porto Vintage King Pedro V Millennium Reserve (Colheita bottled in 2001)
  
  Montrose was the lowest scoring wine of our Christmas at amazing Alte Liebe in Kannai, Yokohama. And, yet, we gave it 96 points. The competition we brought was probably unfair. But, on a romantic holiday, you do want to impress your missus…
  
  For TN: an iron fist that refused to open up. Exceptional with meat and fatty things. A great wine in the making. Still rather far from its plateau.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Château Montrose
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation St. Estèphe
• UPC Codes 031259043678, 087000327122, 3258691277783, 3349991312325, 3364420050364, 3700266208246, 400000987569, 4000013723268, 616773413604

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 929 (7%)
• In Cellars 8,611 (69%)
• Consumed 2,921 (23%)

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