2019 Chateau Montrose Saint-Estephe

2019

• Country: France

• Region: Bordeaux

• Appellation: Saint-Estèphe AOC

• Producer: Château Montrose

• Size: 750 ml

• Varietal: 64% Cabernet Sauvignon 30% Merlot 5% Cabernet Franc 1% Petit Verdot

• Wine Type: Red Wine

97 points Wine Advocate

"As I wrote last year, the 2019 Montrose is performing very well, wafting from the glass with a dramatic, perfumed bouquet of wild berries and cassis mingled with notions of lilac, violets, pencil shavings and licorice, framed by nicely integrated new oak. Full-bodied, layered and seamless, it's deep and multidimensional, with lively acids, beautifully refined tannins and a long, resonant finish. While analytically it's almost as powerful as the 2018, the 2019 is much more suave, sensual and polished, its tannic structure and alcohol more harmoniously integrated into its sweet core of fruit."

-William KelleyDec 21, 2023