Community Tasting Note
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ilee Likes this wine: 97 points
March 15, 2014 - Dinner at home with Mrs L, PH, VK and Ms C (At home): Decanted for 2 hours. This is one of those wines that does everything right. Pungent perfumed nose, rich dark berry flavors, plush mouthfeel, rounded tannins, faultless performance. I particularly liked the sweet hints of incense bobbing up occasionally amidst the stony, smoky endless waves of dark fruit. Just when you start to think this wine is already very enjoyable, the ever-present (though hardly obtrusive) tannins remind you that you've just popped the cork on a juvenile. For those of you friends out there who have a few bottles of this and want to try one for yourself by all means do so, but the majority of your bottles should be left for the 2030's when it will be stupendous. I've decided that if HK is underwater by then, I'll live on a little boat with a small stash of this wine safely stowed below deck...
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Cheungtp commented:
3/16/14, 12:16 AM - In full agreement with you, the 2003 Montrose is truly special, and if HK is to go underwater, this is definitely one of those bottles I will tuck away. Cheers