2023 DAME DE MONTROSE Saint Estèphe Château Montrose, Lea & Sandeman

DAME DE MONTROSE

2023 Saint Estèphe Château Montrose

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Saint Estèphe
ABV 14%

Silky tannins with grip and intensity, a lovely balance of texture and fresh acidities. Slate and pummice stone grip, this is delicious, with appellation typicity in its powerful black fruits, but measured with a saline kick on the finish. In organic conversion, to be certified 2025. Drinking range: 2028 - 2040 Rating: 92 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (May 2024)


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The 2023 La Dame de Montrose is a rich, heady wine. Succulent dark cherry, plum, new leather, spice, menthol, licorice and mocha are beautifully amplified. Explosive to the core, the 2023 possesses tons of aromatic intensity and pure volume. This showy, Merlot-based Dame is quite alluring. Drinking range: 2027 - 2043 Rating: 92-94 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (May 2024)

A classic blend with 61% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon to support the palate, and 5% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc, picked from September 5th, finishing the 28th. This takes 39% of the crop this year. Even though Tronquoy impressed with its perfume and precision, La Dame is well ahead aromatically, with beautiful dark berry fruits, layered with violets, dark chocolate, crushed white chalk and a touch of blood orange. There is a great sense of harmony at the start, and this holds up really well through the midpalate, with no falling off, just supple and generous texture, with dark and perfumed notes as per the nose, and an underpinning of ripe, polished, integrated tannins. Fresh acidity, but not strident or domineering. A lovely structure here for a second wine, leading to a dry and lightly gripped finish. This is a little stunner and while it is unlikely to be the greatest La Dame ever (did you ever taste the 2010?) this will give great pleasure. The alcohol is 13.8%. Rating: 92-94 Chris Kissack, www.thewinedoctor.com (Apr 2024)

The 2023 La Dame de Montrose has a light and slightly tertiary nose, with touches of tea leaves infusing the black fruit. The palate is soft and supple on the entry, with licorice-tinged black fruit and a rounded, cracked-black-pepper-tinged finish. There’s good body for a Deuxième Vin. This will give a decade of drinking pleasure. Drinking range: 2026 - 2037 Rating: 89-91 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Apr 2024)

Château Montrose

St Estèphe Deuxième cru 1855 Wine production St Estèphe developed much later than further south in the Haut-Médoc - indeed, the vineyards of Château Montrose were not planted until 1815, when it was then part of the Calon-Ségur estate. Only 40 years later, not only had Montrose seperated from its parent, it had surpassed it, being one of only two St Estèphe estates to be awarded 2nd Growth status in the 1855 classification. Montrose sits nearer the river than Cos d'Estournel on classic Haut-Médoc gravel soil - the last outcrop as you head north. The 65ha of vines are 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. The Grand Vin spends 18 months in wood (70% new). A second wine was introduced in 1983 - La Dame de Montrose - aged in wood for 12 months (20% new). Montrose is a noted performer in weaker vintages, possibly because of a generous micro-climate which allows slightly earlier picking than most of the Haut-Médoc. The wines age brilliantly.

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