Tasting Notes and Scores
Here we are fully crossing the threshold into younger, more primary aromatics, but they are also well integrated, beautifully softened and gorgeous. This is sappy with a chalky minerality and fully pliable tannins. It's powerful, with a smile-inducing purity of fruit expression and excellent persistency of exotic coffee notes. 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 3.5% Cabernet Franc, 0.5% Petit Verdot. Drinking Window 2017 - 2042
Tasted by Jane Anson (at Decanter's Bordeaux Fine Wine Encounter, The Landmark Hotel, 30 Mar 2017)
Part of Producer profile: Château Montrose
Decanter
The Château Montrose 2005 has a quite brilliant bouquet with intense blackberry, cedar and tobacco scents that unfold in compelling fashion – but don’t give too much away. The palate is full-bodied, a Montrose of “architecture” thanks to its vaulted tannin, perfect acidity and immense precision on the long finish. Everything here feel natural and effortless and yet it is clearly a 50+ year old wine. This is a fabulous Montrose, one built like a Bentley.
– eRobertParker.com, Feb 2015
Neal Martin
Quality 911 | Brand 992 | Economics 960 |
investment staple
Quality: Predicted life of 14 years, one of the longest drinking windows in its peer group, which averages 9 years
Brand: Strong restaurant presence, featuring on 34 of the world's top wine lists, including Tru
Economics: Above its peer group average price of £47 for the 2005 vintage
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- www.wine-lister.com June 2017
Wine Lister
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 structuring—and artery-cleansing—extract. Still an adolescent, it's one of the last unrepentantly old-school vintages of Montrose, and Médoc 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. WK 98 points
The 2005 Montrose has a saturated purple color. As backward as one would expect of a St.-Estèphe, it offers notes of sweet blackcurrant and black cherry fruit, earth, graphite and spice. It is medium to full-bodied, moderately tannic, and still a decade away from prime-time drinkability. This 30+ year wine is clearly outstanding, but not one of the vintage’s most prodigious efforts. Drink: 2025 - 2035.
Robert Parker (Wine Advocate #219, Jun 2015)
Wine Advocate
Dark, youthful, narrow rimmed red; fine, fragrant nose, crisp and complex; rich, vivid, concentrated, elegant wine in a firmly tannic, long term mould; deep, briskly sweet, long and vital in flavour, complex and fine and satisfying, with a lovely long, ripe fruited finish. Assuming the tannins mellow sufficiently, this is excellent long term Montrose. 2025-45+
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