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2015 La Dame de Montrose, St Estèphe, Bordeaux
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Merlot (55%), Cabernet Sauvignon (41%), Petit Verdot (4%)
Ready - at best
(Drink 2022 - 2038)
- Neal Martin
- 89/100
- Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
- 89/100
- Antonio Galloni
- 90/100
- Steven Spurrier
- 92/100
- Jeb Dunnuck
- 91/100
- James Suckling
- 94/100
- Jancis Robinson MW
- 16.5/20
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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 Ready - at best
(2022 - 2038)
Grape List Merlot (55%), Cabernet Sauvignon (41%), Petit Verdot (4%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Montrose
Critics reviews
Neal Martin 89/100
Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.
The 2015 La Dame de Montrose has an attractive bouquet of well defined brambly red fruit, orange peel and rose petal, quite bullish and generous in style. The palate is medium-bodied with lighter tannin than expected, moderate depth, a fine bead of acidity yet slightly lactic toward the finish that steps down a few gears. Fine, but could be better.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 89/100
The 2015 La Dame de Montrose is deep garnet-purple in colour with a nose of crushed black currants, warm black plums and black truffles with hints of underbrush, dried herbs and tar. It finishes at a good length, is medium-bodied and firm, and has a good core of earth-laced black fruits.
Drink 2019 - 2029
Antonio Galloni 90/100
The 2015 is 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot, and spent 12 months in French oak, 30% new.
The 2015 La Dame de Montrose is a super-appealing second wine. Fresh and light on its feet for a wine from this property, La Dame is all about silkiness, precision and aromatic presence. Red cherry fruit, white pepper, spice and mint add to the wine's sensual, open-knit personality.
Drink 2020 - 2030
Steven Spurrier 92/100
Dense floral and cassis nose with a minerally graphite base. Very good natural richness of fruit and great purity of expression. A very serious, very exciting second wine.
Drink 2021 - 2035
Jeb Dunnuck 91/100
A blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot and the rest Petit Verdot, the 2015 La Dame de Montrose is a classic wine from this fabulous estate. Notes of graphite, damp earth, tobacco leaf, and that classic cassis fruit of Saint-Estèphe gives way to a medium to full-bodied, seamless, elegant 2015 that’s already drinking beautifully. Tasted twice.
In this critic’s opinion, Château Montrose is at the top of the pyramid in terms of quality in Saint-Estèphe. They’ve produced some of the best wines in the vintage from the northern Médoc in 2015, and possibly the wine of the vintage in 2016.
Drink 2018 - 2039
James Suckling 94/100
The second wine of Château Montrose.
A very refined red with berries, chocolate and walnuts. Full body and a round, juicy texture. Spicy and salty. Delicious already. It needs two or three years to come together.
Jancis Robinson MW 16.5/20
Tasted blind
Very dark crimson. Relatively evolved on the nose. Slightly simple fruit dominates the dusty tannins.
Drink 2024 - 2038
About this wine
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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Registered company 05492886. BB&R Limited, trading as Berry Bros. & Rudd, 3 St James's Street, London, SW1A 1EG. All rights reserved. You must be 18 or over to order. Calls may be recorded.
