Chateau Montlandrie, Cotes de Castillon, 2009
Montlandrie is a new venture for Denis Durantou in 2009. If handed this blind you certainly wouldn't guess that it is a Castillon. Packed with ripe griotte cherries, notes of breakfast jam, sweet blackberries and tart fruit. The flavours are long and distinguished with a beautifully silky texture and fine grippy tannins.
critic reviews
Beautiful vivid ruby colour, maintains its youthful vigour although on the edges it has switched to a softer russet leaf, and there is the beginning of tertiary character on the palate. Definitely in its drinking window (and this is from magnum), juicy, joyful, elegant, has plenty of limestone minerality dancing underneath the raspberry and blackberry fruit, with saffron and sage spice. Easy to recommend. A buy, and great value. Thank you to Naomie Durantou at L'Eglise Clinet and Baz at the Four Walls Wine company for sending this wine out from the UK to Bordeaux to be part of the tasting. First ever vintage under Denis Durantou, who had bought the estate in 2009.
(a blend of 75% merlot and 25% cabernet franc) Bright ruby-red. Very pretty, intense nose is redolent of spicy redcurrant and raspberry, minerals and violet. Suave, fine-grained and densely packed, with lovely violet lift to its concentrated red cherry, raspberry and mineral flavors. The wine's juicy acidity and smooth tannic backbone guarantee further development and solid aging potential. Really spreads out to saturate the palate on the long finish. Denis Durantou bought this property on high-quality clay in early 2009, and this has to be one of the most impressive maiden bottlings I've tasted from anywhere in quite a long time.