2003 Château Montrose

Red Bordeaux Blend

Mark1npt Likes this wine: 93 points

July 8, 2021 - Also popped tableside for our dinner tonight....obviously fresher than the '66 Latour. Brighter red fruit which gained weight and darkened quite a bit throughout the evening. Initially there was a little tart cherry on the ending but this lessened as the night wore on. A very clean wine with an oak/cedar component felt on the nose more on opening and more on the late palate later on, to me, personally. A very nice wine, but no spectacular components to remark about, in a nice drinking window for those who like a BDX in a slight secondary phase. Still plenty of years to go, so no hurry with this one at all.

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Vini Ciclismo commented:

7/9/21, 3:17 PM - Haha, snap!
Mark1npt commented:

7/12/21, 10:58 AM - It's a pretty good one, Vini....with decades to go! (if you like them that old!)
Jake Barnes commented:

8/10/21, 11:16 AM - Mark and Vini,

You had different experiences with this wine, but how far away from significant tertiary development do you think the bottles you had were?

Cheers!
Mark1npt commented:

8/10/21, 11:30 AM - My bottle was probably 20+ years away! Cheers, Jake!
Vini Ciclismo commented:

8/10/21, 2:31 PM - Sit back and just enjoy the fruit for the next decade Jake.
Jake Barnes commented:

8/11/21, 7:53 AM - Thank you both for the helpful feedback. This wine does sound like it’s in an amazing place right now.
Mark1npt commented:

8/11/21, 11:35 AM - Still very primary and juicy, Jake! At least this bottle was. I had a '96 last year that never did open, it seemed frozen in between primary and secondary for all time!