Montrose - St. Estephe 2022 (750ml)
Price: $190.00
| Producer | Montrose |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Saint-Estephe |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blends |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 6005 |
| Size | 750ml |
The Wine Independent: 98-100 Points
The 2022 Montrose is composed of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon 25% Merlot 8% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot aging in 60% new oak. Deep garnet-purple in color it slowly unfurls to offer a gorgeous perfume of violets star anise wilted roses cumin seed and garrigue giving way to a core of blackcurrant pastilles boysenberry preserves and kirsch. The full-bodied palate is a firework display of graceful highly nuanced fruit featuring mineral floral black fruit and red berry sparks supported by very firm super-ripe tannins and incredible freshness finishing very long vibrant and shimmery. The yield was 31 hl/ha and the First Wine represents 50% of the 2022 production. The quality of the press wine was high this year and 13% was included in the blend. pH 3.78 TPI 85. ?The big surprise was coming back from holiday in August and the vines were still very green" said CEO Pierre Graffeuille. ?The resilience was impressive. The canopy had been reduced and there was no grass in the vineyard no de-leafing. The Cabernet Franc was stunning this year and it all made the cut for the First Wine. We started harvesting Montrose on the 2nd of September?the earliest ever. We finished on the 22nd of September.?
Jeb Dunnuck: 98-100 Points
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.
Wine Advocate: 99-100 Points
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: 97-98 Points
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.
Vinous: 97-99 Points
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. - By Neal Martin on April 2023 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. - By Antonio Galloni on April 2023
Jane Anson: 97 Points
The intensity and the depth of expression is clear from the start with ripe damson and fig fruits incense and espresso given balance and tension by pomegrante slate lemongrass and mandarin rind. Unrolls to show the depth and class of Montrose has density without shouting keeping the estate signature and character. The first full vintage for Pierre Grafeuille as estate director working alongside long time technical director Vincent Decup. 12% press wine pretty much exactly the same as ever this really is a vineyard that delivers consistency.
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