1976 Château Montrose

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  3/3/2024 - vagrantone Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Old note from 1992 with score of 18/20
  very deep hue with rim turning amber.
  Distinctive Medoc nose with cassis and earthy elements.
  Complex aromas with tobacco, fruit, mostly cassis, spices.
  soft tannins, nice texture.

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  3/2/2024 - Fatty Cat wrote: 91 Points

  Early Mar 2024, Rheingau Gourmet Festival, rarity diner “25 vintages of Chateau Montrose”: bottle immediately opened before consumption; dark crimson color; nose of herbs and blossoms like thyme and bergamot, mingled with some creme de cassis; soft with low acidity on the palate.
  
  Quite unusual, nevertheless excellent showing for a Montrose.
  
  Vintages of flight III:
  1952 - 1953 - 1966 - 1976 - 1979 - 1981

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  1/22/2022 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 Points

  1966 – 2010 Château Montrose vertical (Regional Wines, Wellington, NZ): Served single blind, one pour. Varieties: CS 70% | M 15% | CF 10% | PV 5%. The lightest garnet colour on the table (wrongly) suggesting the oldest wine. Some primary red fruit on bouquet but musky, savoury and herbal nuances suggested considerable age. Cigars and mushrooms. On palate, smooth texture, the wine gently and pleasantly advanced. Despite the age, leaner presentation and secondary and tertiary notes – tobacco leaf, sous bois and some tartufo nero – there was still some concentrated cassis fruit left at the centre. Towards the end of the tasting the remains of the glass had faded considerably. Overall, however, as an older Bordeaux, to drink now, I marginally preferred the 1976 over the 1975 and 1966.
  
  Rankings: Me 10/12 | GK 12/12 | CT 12/12.

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  8/16/2020 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Surprisingly much fresher and showed a lovely red fruitedness that I didn’t expect. Still has life in this.

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  7/13/2020 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points

  During a "Covid Stuck in Singapore" 14.July French National day lunch. Right off the bat you knew something serious was coming. Expressive nose of dark fruit, peat, forest floor. Very classic Medoc. Masculine but polished tannins.

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