Community Tasting Note

Purple Tooth wrote:

Thursday, October 20, 2016 - This bottle was a victim of inconsistent bottling. Why? No sediment...Its really hard to accept why some bottles of wine from the same vintage, from the same cellar, throw lots of sediment and some none. I am not saying this because I enjoyed the wine and then saw that the bottle was clean. I am saying this because the wine seemed a bit hollow and lacking in fruit throughout the whole night. I expected it to gain weight and get better, but it just stayed the same from start to finish. Propped up with great acidity, this wine was very youthful in its appearance, medium to full body, and had a super bordeaux nose of earth and cedar. But.... the wine never delivered what the nose promised and left me hanging... :-( Now I have to go and find a killer Bordeaux to open for the weekend to satisfy this hanging feeling!

Still a really good wine, but missed the mark for a 1996 Montrose experience. Reminded me very much of a Leoville Barton 1996 in its adolescence. Very good but not great. Drink or Hold

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