Chateau Montrose 2003

Bewertungen

• 99/100

  Jeb Dunnuck
  A prodigious beast of a wine that's now starting to shed just a touch of its considerable baby fat, the 2003 Château Montrose is based on 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Petit Verdot. It shows the richness of the vintage with its ripe, opulent core of fruit, yet it freshens up noticeably with time in the glass, offering currants, mulberries, smoked tobacco, minty herbs, and licorice. Full-bodied, deep, and powerful on the palate, it still has classic Bordeaux focus and structure. It's drinking brilliantly today with a decant and has another 20-30 years of prime drinking."

• 98/100

  The Wine Cellar Insider
  Opulent, rich, full-bodied, showy and intense, this feels just great as layers of perfectly ripe, sensuous black and red fruits glide over your palate. There is no heat, jamminess or overripe characteristics. What you do experience with all its lush, velvety, showy fruit is layer after layer of intensity, richness and pleasure. Decanted about 90 minutes, this rock star hits all the right notes."

• 19/20

  Weinwisser
  Sattes, fast undurchdringliches Granat mit Purpur und violetten Reflexen am Rand. Aromatisches, tiefgründiges Bouquet, momentan noch etwas hölzern, satte Dichte, florale Cabernet-Noten, dahinter schwarze Beeren, Lakritze, noch zurückhaltend im Ansatz. Fleischiger Gaumen, trotz aktiver Gerbstoffpräsenz, pfeffrige Note im Extrakt, raubeiniger Charme, sehr viel Geduld brauchend, erste richtige Flaschenreife in etwa 15 Jahren. Einer der tiefgründigsten und charaktervollsten St-Estèphe, der die Tannine aber noch verdauen muss, um zu voller Grösse heranzureifen, kann dann vielleicht den 1990er übertreffen, was der Wein von der Reintönigkeit heute schon tut."

• 97/100

  James Suckling
  After the 2009, this is the most exciting Montrose ever made, with intense aromas and flavors of plums, blueberries, spices, tobacco and cedar. It’s full-bodied with extremely refined tannins but a dense, delicious palate. Better in 2016, but why wait?"

• 95/100

  Wine Spectator
  This is hard to distinguish as an '03, as an austere, racy profile of charcoal, black currant and iron reigns. Taut and focused, with a sense of freshness from buried bay leaf and tobacco accents, this is set apart in the vintage by drive and cut. Still a bit tight. The insider's wine in this vintage.-Blind '01/'03/'05 Bordeaux retrospective (December 2017). Best from 2020 through 2040. 15,830 cases made."

• 95/100

  Wine Enthusiast
  Thought by many tasters to be the wine of the vintage at the time of the 2004 barrel tastings. Has it retained that status? It is certainly a hugely powerful wine, monumental even. It is also finely balanced, with great dark tannins working in partnership with brooding black fruit. The question is whether it is too big, too powerful: only time will tell."

• 95/100

  Jane Anson
  Famously a successful 2003, due to the location of Montrose next to the river at a spot when the Estuary is opening up, around 3km wide at this point, bringing essential breezes in the heat. There are still some pretty tight tannins even at going on 20 years old, and overall this is just so spicy and yet juicy. Roasted plums and blackberries, liqourice root, pencil lead, spiced cinnamon and turmeric, with fresher bay leaf and saffron notes on the finish. Love it."

• 95/100

  The Wine Advocate
  One of the top half-dozen wines of this torrid vintage in Bordeaux, as well as one of the least evolved, is the 2003 Montrose. Evocative of blackberries and cassis mingled with black truffles, loamy soil and pencil shavings, it's full-bodied, rich and layered, with a broad attack that segues into a supple but structured mid-palate laden with sweet but succulent fruit that's framed by powdery tannin. While in no danger of imminent decline, it's drinking very well today."

• 92/100

  Decanter
  A year when those cooling breezes from the estuary were essential. This displays sweeter, spicier fruit character than some years, and you can feel a more exotic style of oak. You get caramel and toffee on the nose with some dark spice on the palate, but there is a seam of menthol freshness running through it and the tannins are more than holding on. This shows the quality of Montrose in spades. 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot. Drinking Window 2017 - 2035"

• 17/20

  Jancis Robinson
  Fragrant red and dark fruit, some oak spice and a slight leafiness. Fresh, lively and leafy on the palate. More Pauillac than St-Estèphe?"