Community Tasting Note
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HowardNZ Likes this wine: 98 points
January 22, 2022 - 1966 – 2010 Château Montrose vertical (Regional Wines, Wellington, NZ): Served single blind, one pour. Varieties: CS 53% | M 37% | CF 9% | PV 1%, the highest merlot percentage at the tasting. New oak 60%. Deep, dark colour. A beautiful bouquet of bright blackberry and blackcurrant, crème de cassis and other dark fruit nuances framed by mixed spices, cut herbs, dark chocolate, dark plums and violets. On palate, chocolatey power and intensity. Vibrant, rich dark berry fruit and cassis. Detailed, layered and complex, underpinned by stony minerality. A velvety texture. Dense with serious structure and mid palate fruit weight. Aristocratic. For me, what set this Montrose apart from all of the other good-to-great expressions at the tasting was the 2010’s purity and the exquisite balance and proportion of all of its elements. In such balance it was drinking beautifully on the night. It is though only a baby and should be cellared until at least 2027+. Wine of the tasting. 98+.
Rankings: Me 1/12 | GK 1/12 | CT 3/12.9 people found this helpful 9,094 views
2 Comments
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zimmy07 commented:
1/22/22, 6:19 PM - One hell of a tasting. I love Montrose
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HowardNZ commented:
1/22/22, 7:05 PM - Zimmy, yes, hard to think of a 1966 - 2010 vintage I'd substitute for any of those 12 ... All the best, Howard