Saint Estèphe

74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot. Same ownership and management as Calon Segur. Lovely supple smooth appeal. Fine tannins and cool Cabernet class. Vincent Millet had a new cuverie at his dispos...(read more)

2% Petit Verdot adds a nice element to this ample, full and impressive wine. There is a touch of chewy intensity to the deep fruit - but ripeness is spot-on, broad but balance is there too. Nicel...(read more)

Perfectly mature, but still with three years or so to go, this 2007 Tronquoy impresses for its perfect form and classic Saint Estèphe shape, dryly elegant and long, but not lacking concentration...(read more)

Amazing glass-coating purple to black colour. Wonderful fruit is the main impression - damsons, very pure coulis de fruit style, harmonious while still taut, smoky cassis, fresh and pure and long...(read more)

En primeur this was punching well above its weight. More more recent tasting notes suggest it may be in an awkward phase at present, but opening with time open - try decanting.

There has been a change of régime here, the Charmolüés having sold Montrose to the Louis Roederer Champagne group. The winemaker has also changed, and the new team is led by M. Glumineau, with ad...(read more)

Tasted after the ‘Dame’ (the second wine) 2002 Montrose is both finer and more expressive, still in a very tightly compacted blackcurrant style, very concentrated and very structured. A big and t...(read more)

Swirled in the glass this resembles a huge and perfect ‘black’ tulip, the deepest purple-black. Lots of spicy wood shows first on the nose, which then fills out, rich and full, as it is too on th...(read more)

The 'Grand Vin' represents 77% of the harvest here. Given the astonishing quality of the second wine, it really shows what a consistently excellent terroir Montrose has. Even darker fruit express...(read more)

Deeper even than the Dame in colour, with more blackberry sweet fruit filling out the nose. Cassis depth. Palate is more closed than the Dame, but also more harmonious. Very tannic, but fat and r...(read more)

Capbern has come from nowhere to be seriously popular with our customers in the space of four years, thanks to winemaker Vincent Millet, who is reponsible here as well as at Calon Ségur. Amazing...(read more)

Brightly-scented and well-formed defined fruit purity. Not heavy but well done. Energy and richly oaky classicism. Good direction and flow, crunchy texture. If the acidity shines a touch it is on...(read more)