1975 Château Montrose
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Saturday, January 22, 2022 - 1966 – 2010 Château Montrose vertical (Regional Wines, Wellington, NZ): Served single blind, one pour. Varieties: CS 70% | M 15% | CF 10% | PV 5%. Garnet colour at the rim suggested the age of this wine. An attractive but subdued bouquet of red berries and cherries, cigar, dry earth, autumn leaves, old cedar and mushrooms. On palate, a leaner, evolved wine, showing classic secondary and tertiary Bordeaux nuances. Warm, tilled soil, tobacco leaf and old leather. The tannins now well integrated and resolved. The 1975 now though a little pinched and austere, with some tasters (not me) picking threshold TCA. Overall, an interesting and enjoyable old claret.
After the higher quality 1996 and before the weaker 1966, before the reveal, I wrote that the three wines in between – the 1986, 1976 and 1975 – were very much of a piece, at a similar quality level. Although the margins were small, I rated the 1975 the lowest of the first four wines tasted.
Rankings: Me 11/12 | GK 10/12 | CT 10/12.
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