2022 Ch Montrose 2ème Cru St Estèphe - 1x300cl
06C2MONTSDM _ 2022 - Ch Montrose 2ème Cru St Estèphe - 1x300cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Montrose
  • Region St Estèphe
  • Case size 1x300cl
  • Available En Primeur

2022 - Ch Montrose 2ème Cru St Estèphe - 1x300cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Montrose
  • Region St Estèphe
  • Case size 1x300cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £625.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis, May 2023, Score: 97-99

    Wine Director Pierre Graffeuille explained to us that, despite the very limited rainfall throughout the summer months, Ch Montrose’s prized clay bedrock allowed the vines to remain fully hydrated, showing no signs having suffered from drought. This is a sensational wine for this fine Second Growth, absolutely standing out within the appellation. Striking dark opaque colour, it is compact and concentrated, with scents of violet, dark currant and oriental spice. The fine leathery tannic core gives the wine a distinctive identity and quality. But the overall impression is one of richness, great persistence of flavours, and immense satisfaction. This is superlative.

  • Neal Martin, April 2023, Score: 97-99

    The 2022 Montrose was picked 2 to 22 September comprising all four grape varieties and all the Cabernet Franc, with 13% pressed wine, matured in 60% new oak. There is 14.5% alcohol this year, which is less than 2018. It has an extremely pure nose with black cherries and blueberry. Quite floral in style with hints of blood orange percolating through with time. The palate is very precise with exceptional mineralité and tension. Very focused, superb concentration, with what is becoming Montrose's trademark sense of symmetry and sustained aftertaste, this could be the finest Saint-Estèphe in 2022. Drink 2027-2052

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2023, Score: 96-98

    The 2022 Montrose is a brooding, powerful wine, as it so often is. Huge tannins wrap around a core of dark black fruit, chocolate, leather, spice, menthol and licorice. The new oak (60%) is not yet fully integrated, but then again, the 2022 is a baby. A bit of time in the glass helps the elements come together nicely. Readers will have to be exceptionally patient, as the 2022 is not likely to start drinking well until it is at least 15-20 years old. Drink 2032-2062.

  • Wine Advocate, April 2023, Score: 99-100

    The 2022 Montrose is such a compelling wine that assigning it a bracketed score seems a mere formality. A brilliant terroir, impeccable viticulture, perfectly timed harvest dates and judicious extraction have aligned to deliver a monument in the making, reminiscent of a far purer, more precise, modern-day version of the 1990 vintage at this address. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries, cassis, violets, iris, pencil lead and cigar wrapper, it's full-bodied, deep and authoritative, its velvety attack segueing into a layered, elegantly muscular core that's framed by supple, powdery tannins, concluding with a long, resonant finish. A blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, this only confirms Montrose's status as a de facto first growth and unquestionably one of the contemporary Médoc's very greatest estates.

  • James Suckling, April 2023, Score: 97-98

    A very powerful and structured Montrose with steely tannins that run the length of the wine. It's compacted and muscular with an extremely long finish. Graphite and spices in the aftertaste. This should be terrific after the elevage. From organically grown grapes. 66% cabernet sauvignon, 25% merlot, 8% cabernet franc and 1% petit verdot.

  • Matthew Jukes, April 2023, Score: 19.5+

    Before I get into the meat of this note, I must mention that this is the finest Montrose I have ever tasted at this stage of its life. It possesses the perfect ratio of gracefulness and intensity, with glorious fruit layered in seemingly endless, tempting strata of flavour. There is thrilling depth here and a pulse to this wine that is so cool, calm and collected that it defies belief. According to CEO Pierre Graffeuille, the fruit came in early, and al dente and the team believes that while it makes up 3 only a quarter of the blend, Merlot plays a massive part in this wine because it sits on deep clay soils that did not suffer from the periods of drought. It is common knowledge that Saint-Estèphe enjoyed a superb vintage in 2022, and I believe this wine sits atop the pile. The nose is simply sensational, and the palate is so expressive and open that it is entirely counterintuitive, bearing in mind the usual reserve exhibited by this estate’s Grand Vin. After the fruit fanfare has subsided, the tannins swoop down from their eyries, and then the finish starts, and it rolls on and on. The finish is as exciting as the perfume, making this a noble, harmonious and stimulating wine that seems a distant relation to some of the belligerent and uncommunicative of years gone by. Do all you can to track 2022 Montrose down because this is a landmark vintage for Montrose.

  • Jeb Dunnuck, April 2023, Score: 98-100

    The 2022 Château Montrose is a classic blend of two-thirds Cabernet Sauvignon, with the balance 25% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot, all of which was brought up in 60% new oak from a variety of coopers. Another absolutely brilliant wine in the vintage, it offers a saturated purple hue as well as an essence of Montrose-like bouquet of currants, blueberries, damp earth, violets, graphite, and tobacco leaf. Full-bodied, incredibly concentrated, and powerful, it nevertheless has a riveting sense of purity, precision, and finesse that's hard to believe. Given its balance and purity of fruit, as well as the quality of the tannins, it's going to offer incredible pleasure with just 4-6 years of bottle age (a decade would be best) yet be just about immortal if well stored.

Producer

Château Montrose

For years Montrose has been in the shadow of its more decadent, flashy neighbour, Cos d'Estournel.Quietly confident, it is a brilliant performer in notably dry, sunny vintages due to its dense clay soil that allows the vines to remain hydrated. In 2003, this was particularly true as many deemed it wine of the vintage. They have a new director, Jean-Bernard Delmas, a legend amongst the Bordelais having run Haut Brion and La ...Read more

For years Montrose has been in the shadow of its more decadent, flashy neighbour, Cos d'Estournel.Quietly confident, it is a brilliant performer in notably dry, sunny vintages due to its dense clay soil that allows the vines to remain hydrated. In 2003, this was particularly true as many deemed it wine of the vintage. They have a new director, Jean-Bernard Delmas, a legend amongst the Bordelais having run Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion for 40 years, so quality is only likley to get better and better.Read less

Region

St Estèphe

St Estèphe is the most northern of Médoc communal crus. Its unique terroir is made up of layers of gravel which are supported by a dense clay base. This subsoil retains water in dry seasons and works particularly well with Merlot, a largely planted variety which is used to flesh out Cabernet Sauvignon. This clay base also creates powerful, textured tannins which enable St Estèphe to stand out from the pack. Like St Julien, it is one of the four most important communal appellations of the Médoc which does not contain any first growths, despite its southern border being a stone'sthrow from Château Lafite. Nonetheless, it is home to some excellent châteaux making fine wines such as Cos d'Estournel, Montrose, Calon Ségur and Lafon Rochet.

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