2015 La Dame de Montrose, St Estèphe, Bordeaux
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Merlot (55%), Cabernet Sauvignon (41%), Petit Verdot (4%)
Not ready
Product: 20158124618
Description
55% Cabernet Sauvignon; 41% Merlot; 4% Petit Verdot.
The nose has a really nice aroma of tobacco combined with floral notes. Darker fruits dominate, with blackberry, cherry, and plum to the fore. The palate is sweet, too, with an energetic lift and a very rewarding length. We really like the wine this year. A cooling, mineral earthiness arrives on the finish, which is welcome and pleasing. Quite sumptuous for a second wine, it is serious this year—a good fruit core, nice and savoury and a joy to taste.
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2015
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Merlot (55%), Cabernet Sauvignon (41%), Petit Verdot (4%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Montrose
About this wine
Merlot
The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Saint-Estèphe
Saint-Estèphe is the northernmost of the most important communes of the Médoc, bordering Pauillac on its southernmost border, with only a gully and stream separating it from Ch. Lafite Rothschild. The wines can appear austere in youth, but the best typically display good depth of colour, pronounced acidity and tannins in youth, and are exceptionally long-lived. At their best, they are the equal of almost any Bordeaux.
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Château Montrose
Château Montrose is part of our Spotlight on sustainability series. You can view the full range here.
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