2014 DAME DE MONTROSE du Château Montrose Saint Estèphe Château Montrose, Lea & Sandeman

DAME DE MONTROSE

2014 du Château Montrose Saint Estèphe

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Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Saint Estèphe
ABV 13.5%

Tasted blind. Deep ruby and youthful in colour. Refined, stony mineral aroma with lots of elegant black fruit. Lovely wine with firm tannic structure and excellent balance. Drinking range: 2026 - 2036 Rating: 17.5 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Feb 2024)

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50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot. This has a lovely elegance on the nose, darkly sented with some oriental notes to the spice and soft plum juice. On attack the palate is well filled-out, starts with soe impact, but htis is lifted by a light dusting of chalky minerality that keeps it all floating along quite nicely in a more gentle, restrained way. Rating: 90 L&S (Apr 2015)

The 2014 La Dame de Montrose is more precocious than Lafon-Rochet on the nose, with hints of dried cherries and black olive compote infusing the black fruit, touches of humidor and red brick. The palate is medium-bodied with dusky black fruit, fine tannins and a little austerity towards the finish, though at least it does exude Saint-Estèphe DNA. Give it a year in bottle. Tasted blind at the Southwold 10-Year-On tasting. Drinking range: 2025 - 2040 Rating: 89 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Mar 2024)

Intense, smoky, plenty of black fruit, who doesn't love this 2nd wine of Château Montrose? It's a vintage that is often overlooked, particularly after the run of great years Bordeaux has had recently, but it's at a great moment to open right now, and delivers a ton of St Estèphe and Left Bank typicity, with crayon and graphite. Harvest September 22 to October 16. Drinking range: 2023 - 2034 Rating: 94 Jane Anson, Decanter (Dec 2023)

Château Montrose

St Estèphe Deuxième cru 1855 Wine production St Estèphe developed much later than further south in the Haut-Médoc - indeed, the vineyards of Château Montrose were not planted until 1815, when it was then part of the Calon-Ségur estate. Only 40 years later, not only had Montrose seperated from its parent, it had surpassed it, being one of only two St Estèphe estates to be awarded 2nd Growth status in the 1855 classification. Montrose sits nearer the river than Cos d'Estournel on classic Haut-Médoc gravel soil - the last outcrop as you head north. The 65ha of vines are 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. The Grand Vin spends 18 months in wood (70% new). A second wine was introduced in 1983 - La Dame de Montrose - aged in wood for 12 months (20% new). Montrose is a noted performer in weaker vintages, possibly because of a generous micro-climate which allows slightly earlier picking than most of the Haut-Médoc. The wines age brilliantly.

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