Chateau Montlandrie, Cotes de Castillon, 2016
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
The 2016 Montlandrie has a feisty bouquet, but it retains satisfying focus, mainly black fruit laced with tea leaves and light graphite scents. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, well-judged acidity, cohesive and focused, with cracked black pepper towards the persistent finish. This is headed in the right direction. Tasted blind at the Southwold 10-Year-On tasting.
Although it has the same qualitative style as Les Cruzelles or La Chenade, the 2016 Montlandrie, offers aromas of flowers, plum, graphite and menthol, as well as a more chalky texture. Its pure, clean, long and fleshy with powdery tannins and a long, saline finish. Theres no reason to wait.
Montlandrie 2016 is a blend of 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon and has a deep garnet color. It rolls effortlessly out of the glass with ready-to-go scents of baked black plums, blueberry preserves, and cassis, plus touches of garrigue, pencil shavings, and fallen leaves. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is chock full of expressive black and blue fruits with a velvety texture and seamless freshness, finishing with a minty kick.