2022 Château Montrose Saint-Estèphe Grand Cru Classé Magnum
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Log inThe 2022 vintage experienced a relatively mild winter with water shortages for the first three months of the year. May and June were dry months, despite a hailstorm at the end of June, which had limited impact on the vineyard. The early summer remained extremely dry, with above-average temperatures and four major heat waves between June and August. The first berries appeared on July 30th. Based on the experience of the 2018 vintage, which was particularly dry and sunny in Bordeaux, the team is working to determine the start date of the harvest as precisely as possible. The peak ripeness of Merlots is indeed limited and is essential for maintaining a certain freshness and tension in the wines. Cabernet, on the other hand, has the ability to withstand greater extremes of conditions, especially in the Montrose terroir. The first Merlots were harvested on September 2nd, with the Cabernets following one after the other, each perfectly, and the harvest concluded on September 22nd with the vineyard in perfect condition. The grapes are naturally rich and concentration is appreciated.
2022 certainly marks the decade with a radiant vintage that allows the full power and resilience of the Montrose terroir to be expressed.
The Montrose 2022 is a blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. The initial nose is surprisingly open, intense, complex, and frank. We find subtle aromas of jasmine and Morello cherries. Upon inhalation, mentholated, pomaded notes emerge, followed by aromas of blond tobacco, spices (pepper), and baskets of red fruit (blackberry). On the palate, the attack is frank, fresh, and invigorating. The palate widens rapidly in the mid-palate, becoming soft and salty. The tannic structure is powerful yet wrapped in a velvety glove. The persistent finish doesn't diminish in intensity and tirelessly plays the same precise, singular score. The 2022 Vintage is the expression of Montrose's vibrant energy, harmoniously tamed.
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William Kelley
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.
Published: Apr 28, 2023
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James Suckling
CHÂTEAU MONTROSE ST.-ESTÈPHE 2022
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Country : France
Region : Bordeaux
Vintage : 2022
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.
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Vinous
(97-99)
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2027 - 2052
From: You’re Unbelievable: Bordeaux 2022 (May 2023)
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
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- Deuxième Grand Cru Classé en 1855
Château Montrose is one of the most prestigious Médoc chateaus. Especially since the wealthy brothers Martin and Olivier Bouygues bought the chateau in 2006 and started a rigorous 'makeover'. They tackled absolutely everything from vineyard to cellar. The team is also being strengthened, including with Hervé Berland, who says goodbye to his position as director at Château Mouton-Rothschild to lead this ambitious project. Quality has skyrocketed ever since and the last few vintages Château Montrose has consistently been among the very best wines in Bordeaux; a great achievement! Part of the major quality improvement is a 'parcelic' approach, in which the vineyard is divided into small pieces, each of which is assessed, vinified and raised separately. The selection options have increased enormously as a result. Such that, in addition to a first and second wine, a third wine has also seen the light.
Chateau Montrose makes powerful wines that have a long life ahead of them. Although very tannic, the elegance and especially intensity is memorable. This one of the very best St. Estèphe wines has the 2nd Grand Cru Class status but could easily compete in the highest 1st Cru class. Since the 1989 harvest, followed by a 100-point score by Robert Parker in 1990, Montrose has earned a worldwide reputation and ranks among the greatest Bordeaux.
Deze krachtige, full-bodied Montrose 2022 toont geconcentreerde smaken van zwarte bessen en cassis met florale tonen van viooltjes en jasmijn, een mineralige kern en precieze, poederige tannines afgemaakt met toetsen van grafiet, tabak en kruiden. Dankzij de stevige tannines, frisse onderstroom en langdurige finish vormt hij een perfecte tegenhanger voor rood vlees, lam, wild en rijke stoofschotels omdat het vet en de umami van deze gerechten de tannines temmen en de fruit- en kruidigheid van de wijn naar voren halen. Probeer hem bij gegrild of geroosterd vlees zoals een côte de boeuf of lamsrack, bij langzaam gegaarde stoofribs of een wildgerecht met jeneverbessen en een gereduceerde rode wijnsaus voor optimale harmonie.
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