Château Montrose

La Dame de Montrose, St Estèphe, 2022

Name: La Dame de Montrose, St Estèphe
Brand: Château Montrose
Price: 275.12 GBP

93/100

Inside Bordeaux

92-94/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

92/100

The Wine Independent

92/100

Vinous

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2022
75cl
DP
£45.85
2022
75cl
DP
£45.85
2022
6x75cl
DP
£275.12
2022
6x75cl
DP
£275.12
2022
6x75cl
DP
£275.12
2022
6x75cl
DP
£275.12
Last Few
2022
6x75cl
DP
£275.12
Last Few
2022
6x75cl
DP
£275.12

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Yet another second wine with grand vin pretentions. Very handsome and complete for a second label, this opens with aromas of earth, smoke, tobacco, flowers and fine hedgerow fruits. Ripe, bold and fluid, this is surprisingly complex and nuanced, with a lacy, wispy quality to the fruit; it fans out with sweet fruited tannins and finishes with a refreshing salinity and long noble flavours. 71% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

92/100

Chris Kissack,

The Wine Independent

The blend is 71% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc, at the upper end of the usual range of percentages for the Merlot, and the élevage was in one-third new oak for twelve months, the remainder one-third each second- and third-fill. It accounts for 35% of production. Aromatically this exudes class, combining mineral and dried fruits with the scents of rose and peony, touched with darker elements of soot. A charming, voluptuous and welcoming style on the palate, very supple and polished, very 2022 in style, with sweet dark fruits, black cherry and currant, damson with a touch of olive, and a pure and defined finish. Only here does the backbone of ripe and finely grained tannins show. As usual this is a very classy second wine. The alcohol on the label is 14.5%, with 14.6% in the wine.

drinking window 2025 - 2039

date of review 06/2025

93/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

First year of Pierre Graffeuille as director, and first year to focus on the historic parcels of terrace 4, this is enveloping, seductive, gourmet edges, touches of burnt caramel, spiced and concentrated, as is often the case in this vintage. 45% of production in this.

drinking window 2026 - 2034

date of review 03/2025

92/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 La Dame de Montrose has a very delineated bouquet that's more mineral-driven than previous vintages, featuring bright blackberry and boysenberry fruit tones. The palate is well balanced, fleshy and quite approachable, with smooth tannins and a lingering graphite-infused finish. It is one of the best second wines from Montrose in recent years.

drinking window 2026 - 2040

date of review 02/2025

92-94/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

A second wine that would embarrass numerous classified growths, the 2022 La Dame de Montrose unfurls in the glass with aromas of blackberries, violets, rose petals, charcoal and loamy soil, followed by a medium to full-bodied, layered and fleshy palate of striking concentration, energy and dimension. Seamless and complete, it's a blend of 71% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon and the balance Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc.

date of review 04/2023

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.