2005 Château Montrose

Community Tasting Notes (267) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  5/4/2024 - SARED wrote: 95 Points

  Still youthful, but delightful. Decanted four hours and back in the bottle for another 6. Drank out of Grassl Liberte (a much better choice than the oversized Cru). Very lithe, smooth and balanced. Fruit peaking out, but just so balanced with a medium-to-long finish. 13% alc feels underpowered to modern monsters, but then you realize you can drink the whole bottle without any conundrums, and that’s great. Lovely at a French bistro with chicken liver mousse and duck frites. I’d say “next one in five years”, but I know it will happen sooner (I have a lot). Ultimately, a baby, but not an ugly baby!

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  4/29/2024 - Musigny151 wrote:

  Opened Saturday to check progress.
  
  Bloody hell, laddie, this one is tight. A black hole of a wine; nothing escapes. One hour in a decanter and a couple of wisps of something aromaish deigns to make an appearance. Too faint to be recognizable. Another hour, those wisps have coalesced enough to show some fruit and a little spice. This is not fun.
  
  Another hour, and dinner has been on the table for half of it. We have poured the wine into glasses, it is still bad tempered and showing little.
  
  Another hour and the wine has decided not to fight quite as hard. It is still massive, the tannins are hard but not spiky, and now the wine is showing plenty of fruit, spice and licorice. Still I feel there is a lot hidden.
  
  This was all about potential and had little to do with pleasure. I did have a final glass 6 hours in, and it was still not fully open, but far and away the best tasted. I have five bottles left, and it needs ten years plus, probably more.

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  3/28/2024 - essenceofreal wrote:

  Decided to crack into my case and check on this.
  
  Wow was it young! This has soooo much more in store. If drinking now I'd decant on a frying pan for a week before consuming.
  
  Clearly a great wine, or it will be in about 10 years when it starts to calm down and integrate. I won't be touching these for about a decade.

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  3/21/2024 - RayOB Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Drank in London
  A real beauty

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  2/27/2024 - chatters wrote:

  Chateau Montrose Tasting (Bentley Bar & Restaurant, Sydney): Polished, rich and generous nose shows good quality oak, sweet spice, bacon fat, blackcurrant, plums a little violet, smells younger than the 2011, touch of clay. Juicy and generous here on the palate as well, a little savoury, almost salted liquorice notes joins the black hued fruits, tannins are woody, talc textured and super persistent, a little sous bois joins on the finish with the liquorice slightly more pronounced. Pretty clever

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