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Montrose(2003)
- Winery:
- Varietal:
- Bordeaux Blend
- Region:
- France > Bordeaux > Médoc > St. Estèphe
- Type:
- User Tags:
- red grape, berry, lush, soil, huge, rich, deep, dense, color descriptors, wonderful
- Stephen Tanzer
- International Wine Cellar
- Issue 126, May/June 2006
- 96/100
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August 2007
- ($175-$250) Good medium-deep ruby-red. Superripe, roasted aromas of black raspberry, chocolate and licorice. Wonderfully dense, sweet and lush, with an early roundness rare for this wine. A monumental St. Estephe with almost confectionery sweetness. Wonderfully horizontal, palate-saturating wine with huge but thoroughly ripe, lush tannins. It's hard to believe that a wine this rich and deep could be carrying just 13.2% alcohol. The only thing missing here is the floral topnote of 2005, but that's a quibble in this baking-hot vintage, as Montrose's cooler, water-retentive read more...clay-rich soil handled the extreme heat and drought as well as any chateau in the Bordeaux region. The final blend is 63% cabernet sauvignon, 33% merlot, 3% cabernet franc and 1% petit verdot. (hide)
- James Suckling
- Wine Spectator
- 95/100
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August 2007
