chateau montrose 2eme cru classe st estephe

Château Montrose

Château Montrose, 2ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe, 2005

Name: Château Montrose, 2ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe
Brand: Château Montrose
Price: 1661.47 GBP

98/100

Inside Bordeaux

98/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

98/100

The Wine Independent

96/100

Vinous

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2005
12x75cl
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£1,661.47

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Critic Reviews

96/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2005 Montrose has a wonderful bouquet that has opened up since I last tasted it just prior to the pandemic. Its gorgeous pure blackberry, boysenberry, menthol and pencil lead bouquet is clearly less rustic than some of its peers. The palate is medium-bodied, quite powerful and intense with a slightly medicinal entry, a minty style (a feature I have not seen with respect to numerous bottles in the past) and ample grip on the finish. It's no shy retiring flower by a long stretch—if you seek a more bombastic Montrose then this is where to come. Tasted at the château.

drinking window 2025 - 2050

date of review 06/2025

98/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

This was the last vintage for the Charmolue family - Jean-Bernard Delmas oversaw the elevage of this wine. Deep garnet in color with a touch of brick at the rim, the 2005 Montrose is composed of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. After a little shaking, the nose erupts with a fantastic perfume of blackcurrant pastilles, kirsch, raisin cake, and forest floor, leading to hints of aniseed, cracked black pepper, and unsmoked cigars. The medium-bodied palate has a rock-solid backbone of firm, grainy tannins and bold freshness supporting the muscular black fruits, finishing very long and minerally.

drinking window 2027 - 2052

date of review 09/2023

98/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

The last year for Montrose under the Charmolüe family, before the Bouygues bought in 2006. Inky plum in colour, moreish from the very first sip. So juicy, such well controlled extraction, balanced but intense and concentrated, with layers of still-vibrant cassis, bilberry, eucalyptus and cocoa bean. You can now clearly see where this is heading, but it will continue to build over the next few years, and then stay on the plateau for decades. Proof that whatever the Bouygues paid for it the following year, they were getting one of the greatest estates in the Médoc. 60% new oak.

drinking window 2022 - 2050

date of review 09/2022

98/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2005 Montrose continues to show brilliantly, unwinding in the glass with notes of blackcurrant, red fruits, loamy soil, black truffles and cigar ash. Full-bodied, deep and concentrated, it's still brooding and tannic, with lively acids and an imposing chassis of structuringand artery-cleansingextract. Still an adolescent, it's one of the last unrepentantly old-school vintages of Montrose, and Medoc purists couldn't own enough. While this remains a very youthful wine, it is now apparent that the 2005 will, at maturity, surpass the 1989 and 1990.

drinking window 2025 - 2065

date of review 02/2022

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