PRE-ORDER
2010 | WA 100
Full-bodied with deep garnet color, featuring notes of blackcurrant, plum, cedar, charcoal, and graphite. It is noted for its "brick house" structure—dense, concentrated, and muscular.
2014 | WE 96
Intense aromas of blackcurrant, cassis, tobacco, and pencil shavings. It has powerful yet velvet tannins and a long,, precise finish.
2016 | WE 97
Intense aromas of cassis, blueberry, menthol, and graphite, with a muscular yet refined structure.
2017 | WA 97
Intense blackberry, cassis, juniper, and violet with a "cool" and reserved, yet powerful, structure.
2018 | JS 98
Deep garnet-purple, featuring intense aromas of black fruit (blackberry, cassis), violet, crushed stone, graphite, and cedar.
2019 | V 100
Rich, inky concentration with notes of black cherry, blackcurrant, tobacco, gravel, and licorice.
2020 | WA 100
Predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon, with Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. Powerful yet precise with powdery tannins and intense black fruit.
2021 | WA 100
The 2021 is described as refined, with graphite, blackcurrant, and damson plum notes. It has a "surprisingly open and expressive" nature for a young Montrose.
About Winery
Second growth classified in 1855. With its terroir of big gravels located by the river Gironde, its classic and powerful style, Montrose is often called the Latour of Saint Estephe. Montrose needs time to express its incomparable delicacy. In the first decade, its fantastic potential is hidden behind a certain austerity. In the second decade, the wines open themselves. In the third decade, they explode, and the terroir expresses itself. In the hands of the family Charmolle from 1896 to 2006, it is now run by Martin and Olivier Bouygues.
