1996 Château Montrose

Community Tasting Notes (382) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  3/3/2024 - cypra Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Touch of brick red, nose ripe plum and blue berries, herbs, cedar, a little bit of smoke of wood. Very balanced and integraterd. Long finish. I expect not no further improvement, but still a long life a head.

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  3/2/2024 - Fatty Cat wrote: 95 Points

  Early Mar 2024, Rheingau Gourmet Festival, rarity diner “25 vintages of Chateau Montrose”: according to the sommelier double decanted for up to 3 hours; deep crimson color; rich bouquet of coffee, cherries, and herbs; open and round, ethereal like texture; medium/light body.
  
  Vintages of flight II:
  1975 - 1986 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1994 - 1996

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  2/24/2024 - MC wrote:

  Decanted an hour before dinner and enjoyed over 3 hours. Perfect cork. Fruit soars from the decanter at open. Dark blue fruit, great secondaries on the nose. On the palate this is ripe and expansive, really enjoyable with and without fruit. If there were the smallest nit it would be a very slight drying on the finish but nothing to complain about. I think I would be drinking this now because the fruit is in such a good place but should hold. A-

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  2/15/2024 - DarinC Likes this wine: 94 Points

  PnP. Expressive aromas of leather, tobacco, brambly dark fruits and graphite. Fourth consistent bottle out of a well-stored case and they continue to mature and improve. Great balance with a few tannins in reserve. Drinking very well now and should hold for ~10 years.

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  12/6/2023 - JulianSkeels wrote: 92 Points

  Very pure Cabernet dominated - clean but foursquare, firm and slightly green. Little aromatics, even with air. Just seems to be lacking something. Hopefully will develop more interest with another 5yrs. Drink from 2028. 92-93pts

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