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Saturday, January 22, 2022 - 1966 – 2010 Château Montrose vertical (Regional Wines, Wellington, NZ): Served single blind, one pour. Varieties: CS 62% | M 34% | CF 3% | PV 2%. Deep, bright ruby. A huge volume to the bouquet. Fresh blackberry, vanillin and chocolatey scents with caramel, definitely showing its oak élevage. However, seemingly a little leaner and sleeker on palate than the nose suggests. Muscular but with cultured and svelte fruit. The fruit hugely concentrated, opulent and ripe, including dark plums, reflecting the large merlot component. Crème de cassis, graphite, liquorice, blackberries and cedar. Ultra fine grained tannins. Seductive and a little soft. Sufficient vibrant acidity retained. I had this wine as possibly the 2010. Although with the serious architecture and volume of ripe fruit, sitting in the glass, towards the end of the tasting the palate moved more linear. Excellent length. A top wine in this line-up. No stereotypical 2003 jamminess. Ideally drink from 2025+. Such is the huge dry extract, I would not be surprised if the 2003 drank well 40 years from today. 96+.

Rankings: Me 5/12 | GK 3/12 | CT 4/12.

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