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La Dame de Montrose 1990
Region: -Bordeaux
Type: Red
Rating: 90
Guide Price: 42.00
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2nd wine of Ch. Montrose, St.-Estephe
Mature healthy colour – garnet with a bricky rim; quite fragrant with a very distinct (amongst other vintages of Montrose) sweet herbs and farmyard aroma; lovely sweet fruit and sweet herb flavoured wine, soft and ‘pillowy’-textured with a delicious finish of sweet herbs and a touch of iodine. Round and complete if just a little light-weight. Easy, ready, but delicious with the sweet-herb aromas an flavours a particularly nice aspect to this wine.
NB – there was some discussion with Micheal Broadbent MW at our tasting about the Ch Montrose 1990. At a tasting of 144 of the world’s top wines of 1990, he rated the Ch Montrose his lowest-marked wine at 13/20. In particular he disliked its barnyardy fermiere aromas. He noted similar aromas in the La Dame de Montrose 1990 this evening – that aspect in the wine that I enjoyed.
A participant at this evening’s tasting commented that in a French tasting with the Bordeaux producers, the Ch Montrose was tasted blind with the 1990 first growths and was voted favourite wine. This, plus Robert Parker’s rating of this wine at 100/100 make it fairly controversial then.
I shall be able to report on that wine after our own Ch Montrose vertical tasting in September 2004.
Tasted 23rd March 2004
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