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Ch Montrose 1990
Region: -Bordeaux
Type: Red
Rating: 97
Guide Price: 175.00
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The aromatics are amazing - horse shit at first, and then loads of dried herbs, like dried grass clippings in the summer heat. These blow off with time in the glass to reveal the more classics Médoc fruit character. On the palate though, there is no mistaking both the quality and the concentration. Supreme!
Tasted at a dinner party, 2nd September 2004.
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Quite opaque ruby with a developed rim, dense colour; lawn clippings drying in the summer sun (sorry – this is such an evocative nose, and I’ve not come across this aroma in any other wine at all), sweet and opulent fruit underneath (which came more to the fore as the wine opened up in the glass); thick, ripe, delicious, concentrated, fine, with that dried lawn clipping note (okay, no one eats lawn clipping! It becomes a more dried herb note on the palate – quite pleasant, really!), thick yet ripe velvety tannins on the long finish. This wine is ready to enjoy now, is in supreme balance, yet will have a long life ahead.
Tasted at The Fine Wine Experience vertical tasting of Château Montrose, Tuesday 28th September 2004.
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