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Stanrocks wrote:

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - Difficult one again,

Kept it to see, the wine still shows depth and concentration. Knowing the vintage and how it was in Bordeaux in those years I expect that wine to have been quite osmosed !

Meaning concentrated through reverted osmosis, to add sugar and concentration in a cold and wet vintage.

67 CS 33 Merlot

https://www.chateau-montrose.com/millesimes/la-dame-de-montrose-2002/

The wine has a lot of tertiary notes, not very long but complexity, and soft tannins, acid is good and has held the wine so far ... It s still 89+ kind of wine I guess It was definitely not dead, but people don't know anymore about wines with less opulence and fruit ! Sad but True !

Tasted alongside a 2007 Rouget Pomerol ... so 2 complicated years side to side to compare Merlot dominated and CS dominated wines in cold and difficult vintages. Used to call them winemakers vintages

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